Isolated Greenland polar bear population adapts to climate change
With less access to sea ice, bears in southeast Greenland have learned to hunt from chunks of glacier ice.
WASHINGTON — An isolated population of polar bears in Greenland has made a clever adaptation to the decline in the sea ice they depend upon as a platform for hunting seals, offering a ray of hope for this species in at least some locales in the warming Arctic.
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