More than 50,000 photos were entered into the 2023 competition, and a panel of judges and the Natural History Museum shortlisted 25. The polar bear’s “Ice Bed” was chosen as the winner by ...

but I do know that polar bears rely on a platform of sea ice from which to hunt. A fast-warming Arctic means that sea ice is disappearing for increasingly longer periods of time each year.

For their efforts, the scientists found that ice has a much harder time sticking to unwashed, greasy polar bear hair than to oily human hair. When the polar bear fur was washed, it performed more ...

According to Polar Bears International, these layers keep them so warm that adult males can quickly overheat when they run. Ice also does not accumulate on it, despite the bears spending nearly all of ...

Ice also does not accumulate on it, despite the bears spending nearly all of their time in and around freezing cold water. “Animals living in polar habitats have emerged as a source of ...

The anti-icing secret of polar bear fur ... how well ice sticks to fur; [known as] hydrophobicity, which dictates whether water can be shed before it freezes; and freezing delay time, which ...

Photograph by PAUL NICKLEN In satellite photos ... which gives us some time to act and potentially mitigate the warming.” Dripping wet, a polar bear climbs onto an ice floe in northernmost ...

The weather in Hudson Bay last year had positive and negative impacts for its polar bear populations. According to Polar Bears International (PBI), due to an unusual ice breakup in June, the ...