The image of the starving polar bear, separated from its food sources by the melting sea ice of the Arctic, is one that strikes at the heart of the public. But the real situation of the polar bears in the high Arctic is much more nuanced. Emily Haavik reports from the Svalbard archipelago on what scientists are learning about polar bear adaptation, and the impacts of climate change.
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