Regular on-site monitoring of Chukchi polar bears has also become more precarious as the sea ice there weakens. Such problems were especially bad in 2016 and 2017, ...

Polar bears roaming the ice and swimming the waters of the Chukchi Sea have become increasingly exposed over the past decades to a collection of disease pathogens, according to a newly published ...

Polar bears roaming the ice and swimming the waters of the Chukchi Sea have become increasingly exposed over the past decades to a collection of disease pathogens, according to a newly published ...

Integrated Population Modeling Provides the First Empirical Estimates of Vital Rates and Abundance for Polar Bears in the Chukchi Sea. Scientific Reports , 2018; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34824-7 ...

Polar bears roaming the ice and swimming the waters of the Chukchi Sea have become increasingly exposed over the past decades to a collection of disease pathogens, according to a ...

The world's polar bears are divided into 19 subpopulations, including two in U.S. waters. Besides Chukchi bears, the United States shares the southern Beaufort Sea population with Canada.

The polar bears by the Chukchi Sea, a new study found, face a greater risk of contracting many pathogens than they did three decades ago. In studying blood samples, ...

In the new study, researchers examined blood samples from polar bears in the Chukchi Sea in 1987-1994 and then three decades later, 2008-2017, looking for antibodies to six pathogens.

Polar Bears Are Exposed to More Parasites, Viruses and Bacteria as the Arctic Heats Up Pathogens are more common in polar bears living in the Chukchi Sea now than they were three decades ago, a ...

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland habitats. But they may be increasingly infected with germs and parasites, too ...

Most polar bears live north of the Arctic Circle to the North Pole. This includes Alaska, Canada, ... especially after the October 2019 record low ice cover in the Chukchi Sea.

Polar bears set up home in abandoned 1930s Russian weather station decades after Arctic island outpost was left to rot. Photographer Dmitry Kokh travelled more than 1,2000 miles to reach Russia's ...