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Sea ice provides a hunting platform for polar bears all around the Arctic. Polar bears are rushing to find ice to hunt on as the world heats due to human-caused climate change and Arctic sea ice disappears. But a new study reported the discovery of an isolated population of polar…

A newly discovered subpopulation of polar bears in remote southeastern Greenland have found a way to eke out a living under warm conditions similar to those forecasted for much of the Arctic later this century, scientists reported on June 16 in Science. Warming temperatures are causing sea ice, which polar…

Over years of study and careful observation, scientists began to notice bears in southeast Greenland never seemed to stray too far — rarely venturing away from their home fjords with narrow, coastal glaciers.  “They’re hemmed in on all sides,” Laidre said, restricted by nearby topography, areas lacking habitat, open water…

Home News Researchers have discovered a new population of polar bears living in Greenland. (Image credit: Kristin Laidre/University of Washington) (opens in new tab)A secret population of polar bears in Greenland has been discovered in a seemingly impossible habitat — one that, for most of the year, lacks the floating…

A recent study, published in Science, indicates that a population of polar bears could uniquely adapt to survive the decline of Arctic sea ice. For the last 40 years, the region has lost 13 percent of its ice cover each decade. That’s like removing a chunk of ice the size…

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Paruzzaro (Italy), 13th June 2022. U-Power, Italian leader in safety footwear and workwear business, announces the appointment of its new global brand ambassador, Gerard Butler. The Scottish actor, known for his lead in internationally acclaimed films ‘300’, ‘Greenland’ and the ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ trilogy, will lend his image to be…

The crew of Danish warship Vedderen perform a flag-raising ceremony on the uninhabited Hans Island off northwestern Greenland, on Aug. 13, 2002.VEDDEREN/The Canadian Press Canada and Denmark have reached a settlement in a decades-old border dispute over Hans Island, a 1.3-square-kilometre rock in the Arctic sea passage between Greenland and…

Greenland Group is selling assets as it hustles to pay creditors In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, Shanghai-based Greenland Group offloads a mall in the Sydney suburbs, Hong Kong’s Nan Hai Corporation warns of asset seizures as an offshore bond default looms, and China Railway Construction looks to dump…

Today, Defence Minister Anita Anand hosted a virtual Security and Defence Dialogue with her counterparts from Arctic allied and partner states, including the Kingdom of Denmark (Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. May 16, 2022 – Ottawa, Ontario – National Defence /…