Thomas William Kingosak always carries a rifle during whale hunts to use in case a polar bear attacks. Polar bears have been known to approach hunting camps in search of food. Bowhead whales are ...

I can’t say that this bear was starving because of climate change, but I do know that polar bears rely on a platform of sea ice from which to hunt ... and whales that are their prey and where ...

Palin’s policies in Alaska weighted toward development “She speaks of a balanced approach to wilderness protections, but has put energy exploration and hunting before struggling polar ...

To film polar bears hunting beluga whales in the Hudson Bay we went out ... But on one occasion the polar bear decided that playing with our anchor line was more fun than waiting for belugas.

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice sticks ...

"They can weigh two-thirds of a tonne and are said to be capable of knocking a beluga whale senseless ... shrinking hunting grounds. In the Nineties it was rare to see a polar bear; since May ...