has shared once-in-a-lifetime photos of polar bears that took over an island. The island in question is Kolyuchin Island, located in the Chukchi Sea. This remote part of the Russian arctic used to ...

There are two populations of polar bears in Alaska — the Chukchi Sea population and the Southern Beaufort Sea population. The Southern Beaufort Sea population inhabits the northern region of the ...

2011). A survey in the Chukchi Sea in August 2008 recorded 10 polar bears swimming in open water, with one bear more than 60 miles from shore (Clarke et al. 2011). Bears in the Southern Beaufort and ...

Then, in a bait-and-switch that wouldn’t fool a three-year-old, Interior waived Marine Mammal Protection Act safeguards for polar bears and walruses in the Chukchi Sea — effectively giving oil ...

Polar bears are curious by nature and opportunistic hunters. In the Chukchi Sea region, these usually solitary bears migrate further north in the summer, following the retreating sea ice which they ...