‘Jumping genes’: how polar bears are rewiring their DNA to survive the warming Arctic

Researchers analyzed blood samples from polar bears located in northeastern and southeastern Greenland. The results showed ...
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Polar Bears Are on The Brink of Extinction, But Their DNA May Be Fighting Back

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their hunting grounds are shrinking, food is becoming harder to find, and their ...

The polar bears of the Arctic are evolving in real time

A genetic analysis of polar bears in southeast Greenland found that genes related to heat-stress, aging, and metabolism are behaving differently compared to polar bears in more northern regions.
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Of honeybees and polar bears: Saving beloved species isn’t enough — but it’s a good start

Yet in the past 12 years, at least 467 species have gone extinct, with most of these creatures — including a type of rodent called the melomy and a Hawaiian tree snail called Achatinella apexfulva — ...
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Polar bears near extinction, but their DNA may be pushing back

Polar bears are running out of ice and out of time, yet inside their cells something remarkable is happening. As the Arctic ...
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Gray Wolves, Polar Bears and the Endangered Species List

Just 13 years after gray wolves were re-introduced into the lower 48 states, they're going off the Endangered Species List. At the same time, polar bears may go on the list—because of dangers that lie ...
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Ohio zoo collects polar bear poop to aid species' survival

CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio zoo has become the repository for the world's largest collection of polar bear poop as researchers work to create a pregnancy test to aid the survival of this endangered ...
Arizona Daily Star

Global warming helps get polar bears species protection

WASHINGTON — Government officials say the Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of global warming. The officials told The Associated Press the bears ...
The Atlantic

Polar Bears, As a Species, Are 5 Times Older Than Previously Thought

The polar bear has a become an (insufferably cute) symbol of global warming -- meaning we were extra keen on reading into a new study, published in Science, on the genetic origins of these ...
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1 of America's oldest polar bears dies after outliving average life expectancy by 10 years

Little One was born at the Cleveland Zoo in 1989. The second oldest male polar bear in the United States has died after outliving the median life expectancy for the species by more than 10 years. The ...
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Of honeybees and polar bears: Saving beloved species isn't enough — but it's a good start

But in fact, history shows that humans do have the power to save animals on the brink of extinction. Such successes might be the most tangible representation of conservation that we have. Still, ...