Svalbard Norway now has more polar bear habitat than it did two decades ago

From Polar Bear Science Posted on March 1, 2020 |  Sea ice around Svalbard, Norway at the end of February 2020 is way above average, as the graph below shows…

State of the Polar Bear Report 2019: Are polar bear researchers hiding good news?

From Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on February 27, 2020 | Comments Off on State of the Polar Bear Report 2019: Are polar bear researchers hiding good news?…

Why are polar bears going extinct? (Spoiler: They’re not)

Reposted from Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on February 24, 2020 | Google says many people ask this question so here is the correct answer: polar bears are…

Flashback: The Politics of Polar Bears CBC documentary from 2014

From Polar Bear Science Worth watching if you haven’t seen it – and a second look if you have – a rare balanced documentary produced by the CBC in 2014…

Polar bear habitat at mid-winter as extensive as 2013 & better than 2006

From Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on February 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Polar bear habitat at mid-winter as extensive as 2013 & better than 2006 Arctic…

2019 Alaska aerial survey found the most polar bears since 2012 – dozens of fat healthy bears

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on January 12, 2020 | This aerial shot of six fat polar bears lolling around on a sand beach on the coast of the…

Polar bear cubs play on the thin ice that supposedly threatens them with extinction

From Polar Bear Science Posted on December 21, 2019 | This video tweet deserves a post of its own: two relatively inexperienced cubs-of-the-year in Russia deliberately break through thin ice,…

No joke: Russian scientists marked problem Kara Sea polar bear with T-34

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on December 7, 2019 | The media are so gullible. So eager are they for a sympathetic polar bear victim that news outlets everywhere…

Ryrkaypiy ‘over-run’ by >50 polar bears is probably due to more Chukchi Sea bears

From Polar Bear Science Posted on December 5, 2019 | A scary-sounding headline from the BBC today screams “Ryrkaypiy: Far-north Russian village overrun by polar bears“. A little research would…

BBC’s One Planet falsely claims that polar bears hunting whales from shore is an unprecedented effect of climate change

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on November 30, 2019 Polar bears leaping on the backs of belugas off Seal River, in western Hudson Bay, is being falsely promoted by…

Western Hudson Bay freeze-up earlier than average for 1980s for the third year in a row

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on November 11, 2019 | This is the third year in a row that freeze-up of Western Hudson Bay (WH) ice has come earlier…

Polar bears precipitated Netflix walrus deaths, new Attenborough TV special shows

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on November 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Polar bears precipitated Netflix walrus deaths, new Attenborough TV special shows Concerns I raised earlier this…

Delingpole interview on the success of polar bear conservation & failed survival models

From Polar Bear Science Posted on October 28, 2019 Tomorrow I will be giving a public lecture in Paris on polar bear conservation success and the spectacular failure of the…

Activist biologist filled with eco-anxiety shares unfounded fear of polar bear catastrophe

From Polar Bear Science Posted on September 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Activist biologist filled with eco-anxiety shares unfounded fear of polar bear catastrophe Misplaced eco-anxiety that kids have…

No climate emergency for polar bears or walrus means no climate emergency period

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on September 23, 2019 | We are told the Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else in the world, yet as the…

Polar bear books for kids and young adults are the perfect antidote for climate anxiety

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on September 9, 2019 | Comments Off on Polar bear books for kids and young adults are the perfect antidote for climate anxiety In…

Walruses climbing cliffs and falling off them are natural events: 1994 video from Alaska

From Polar Bear Science Posted on September 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Walruses climbing cliffs and falling off them are natural events: 1994 video from Alaska US Fish and…

Sea ice melt in the Arctic Basin leaves an area for polar bears larger than Greenland

Reposted from Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on August 29, 2019 Sea ice melt in the Arctic Basin leaves an area for polar bears larger than Greenland Most…

Media and USGS biologist sensationalize recent report of a polar bear encounter in Alaska

From Polar Bear Science Posted on August 12, 2019 | It’s been a slow summer for polar bear news to hype, so we shouldn’t be surprised that a local report…

Polar bear spotted on Bear Island (Barents Sea) this winter for the first time in 8 years

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on July 31, 2019 | Polar bear spotted on Bear Island (Barents Sea) this winter for the first time in 8 years A polar…

10 fallacies about Arctic sea ice & polar bear survival: teachers & parents take note

Reposted from Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on July 12, 2019 | Summer sea ice loss is finally ramping up: first year is disappearing, as it has done…

Skinny polar bear far inland in Siberia not due to sea ice loss but a rare normal event

Reposted from Polar Bear Science A thin polar bear has wandered more than 1000km south of the Kara Sea into the Siberian town of Norilsk, which has happened at least…

Polar Bears: Which Narrative to Believe?

Originally published May 1, 2019 in the Pacifica Tribune column What’s Natural by Jim Steele, republished here by request of the author. When polar bear expert Mitch Taylor modeled populations…

Native American Wisdom on Polar bears and Kappiananngittuq:

By Jim Steele Native American Wisdom and Kappiananngittuq: Polar Bears and Bowhead whales published Pacifica Tribune April 17, 2019 What’s Natural column Native American Wisdom and Kappiananngittuq: Part 1 In…