Study finds polar bears in southeast Greenland hunting on both sea ice and freshwater ice Scientists say bears are distinct from other polar bear populations A group of polar bears clinging to ...

Polar bears rely on ice platforms from which to hunt for food, primarily seals. Sea ice is only available in Southeast Greenland for four months of the year, from February to May.

A southeast Greenland polar bear on a glacier in 2016. Thomas W. Johansen / NASA Oceans Melting Greenland. June 16, 2022, 2:02 PM EDT. By Evan Bush.

Most polar bears make use of sea ice to hunt, but this is a limited option for the southeast Greenland bears. The region only sees sea ice between February and May.

Sea ice provides the platform that most of the Arctic’s roughly 26,000 polar bears use to hunt seals. But polar bears can’t fast for eight months. For two-thirds of the year, the Southeast Greenland ...

A genetically distinct and isolated population of polar bears have been newly documented living in Southeast Greenland. The bears have evolved to live without sea ice, which is crucial for most ...

A polar bear stands on a snow-covered iceberg that is surrounded by fast ice, or sea ice connected to the shore, in southeast Greenland. Image: Kristin Laidre/University of Washington The bears ...

The world-wide population of polar bears now stands at about 26,000, with 19 distinct population groups spread in Arctic regions of Canada, Russia, Alaska, Greenland and Norway, according to the ...

Polar bears don’t often show up in Southern or Western Greenland any more, but this year has been an exception. Only yesterday, two appeared near Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. And according to ...

Okay, let’s face it, polar bears are some of the most awesome animals on the planet. Technically classified as marine mammals, polar bears can swim constantly up to days at a time, they can weight as ...

For thousands of years, Greenland's Inuit people survived the world’s harshest conditions while living off whales, seals, polar bears, fish and caribou. Greenland's isolated indigenous culture, long ...