Polar Bears

• Polar bear ‘poop’ and how it offers important clues into climate change effects

  "Polar bear poop," as it's come to be known, is a valuable tool for researchers at Dalhousie University, as they look for its effects on the animals health and climate change.

  Canada

  Nov 30
  
• In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble

  Studies have shown that even hunting on land — caribou, birds, human trash — takes so much energy that bears don't really gain any more calories than those that sit and starve.

  Environment

  Sep 24
  
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• Rough play led to Baffin the polar bear’s drowning death, Calgary Zoo officials say

  Calgary zoo officials say one of their polar bears died by drowning after his throat was crushed by a fellow bear in rough play.

  Canada

  Jul 23
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• Marine area bigger than Lake Superior could soon be protected off Ontario’s shores

  A vast marine area home to beluga whales and threatened polar bears off Ontario's northern shores is a step closer to protected status.

  Environment

  Feb 21
• Calgary’s polar bears, penguins enjoying Arctic temps, ski hills shut down

  Polar bears at the Wilder Institute Calgary Zoo are one of the creatures who feel at home among the Arctic temperatures hitting the city.

  Weather

  Jan 11
• Churchill Northern Studies Centre using $83K grant to improve polar-bear research

  The Churchill Northern Studies Centre says an $83,000 grant from the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat charity "will change our world."

  Environment

  Dec 31, 2023
• Calgary Zoo set to debut Wild Canada section complete with polar bears

  A new section of the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo will open to the public on Friday and will include the debut of two polar bears who recently arrived from a zoo in Manitoba.

  Canada

  Nov 30, 2023
• Manitoba polar bears to teach Calgary zoo patrons climate change awareness

  Winnipeg's zoo is currently home to nine polar bears, and Baffin and Siku were chosen for the move to Calgary based on their personalities and roles within the group dynamic.

  Environment

  Jul 27, 2023
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• Calgary Zoo to welcome orphaned polar bears in the fall

  Two male polar bears who were orphaned in Churchill, Man., will be sent from Winnipeg in the coming weeks to live in their new enclosure in the Calgary Zoo’s Wild Canada area.

  Environment

  Jul 27, 2023
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• ‘A bleak outlook’: Impacts of climate change on full display in Canada’s north

  Churchill, Man., is on thin ice, as is humanity, according to a report released by the UN earlier this week.

  Environment

  Mar 24, 2023