A polar bear swimming in the Arctic, by Paul Nicklen.

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the polar bear diverged from the brown bear, Ursus arctos , roughly 150,000 years ago.

Projections are that we could lose polar bears they could become extinct in the next 50 to 100 years.

Polar bears need ice to be able to move back and forth they're not very good swimmers and we know what's happening to the ice.

The range includes the territory of five nations Denmark (Greenland), Norway (Svalbard), Russia, the United States (Alaska) and Canada.

A boar (adult male) weighs around , while a sow (adult female) is about half that size.

From the promotion of organic food to declarations of the polar bear s imminent demise, the media pelt us with a constant barrage of one sided warnings.

Consider a tale that has made the covers of some of the world s biggest magazines and newspapers the plight of the polar bear.

Some can migrate, but others (such as polar bears) are likely to be driven to extinction unless we take decisive action to head off climate change.

Campaigners and the media claim that we should cut our CO2 emissions to save the polar bear.

But if you look closely, they're kind of like the polar bear and husky no claws, flat fur, soft eyes, open mouth with no fangs, balletic movements, curvilinear movements all specific to play.

Khers.

For thousands of years, the polar bear has been a key figure in the material, spiritual, and cultural life of Arctic indigenous peoples, and polar bears remain important in their cultures.

Escaping the Bear Hug

The hunter followed the bear's tracks.

KHERS (The Bear), directed by Khosro Masumi

A bear can climb a tree.

Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the 100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between Tom and Al Gore.

A human being, a child, can just watch its parent kill another polar bear, and skin it and put the skin on its body, fur on the body, and learn it in one step. What the polar bear took 100,000 years to learn, it can learn in five minutes, maybe 10 minutes.

So I got the teddy bear and I said, Do you mind if I pull out one of your fibers?

Copper fights the bear but is no match for it.

The Bear Flag is the official flag of the state of California.

Ms. Violet Ford (Inuit Circumpolar Conference)

The vanishing Arctic sea ice also affects the atmosphere.

A lamb, after all, does not provoke a bear.

The life span for this bear is a maximum of 30 years.

Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis (or the southern lights), has features that are almost identical to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone.

A polar bear can swim up to 500 kilometers.

Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.

There's powder box, derriere, a pooky, a poochy, a poopy, a poopaloo, a pooninana, a padepachetchki, a pow, and a peach.

It won the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival.

Early evidence for a geomagnetic connection comes from the statistics of auroral observations.

All these islands lie in the cold seas below the Antarctic convergence.

A polar bear wouldn't hesitate to attack a huge walrus if it were hungry.

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it a mediterranean sea or an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1948, the underwater Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean was named in his honor.

Today, a far greater Arctic tragedy is unfolding the Arctic sea ice cap is melting.

For instance, as the Arctic ice cap melts, less sunlight is reflected.

And you'll see that it leads with a shifting star field, and there's an Aurora Borealis in the background, kind of morphing with color. The color of the Aurora Borealis can be controlled using this single bar of color at the bottom, and we'll put it down here to red.

Another part is that the so called Arctic Oscillation of wind patterns over the Arctic Ocean is now in a state that it does not allow build up of old ice, but immediately flushes most ice into the North Atlantic.

Large and widely recognized wildlife mammals found in Finland are the brown bear (the national animal), gray wolf, wolverine and elk.

These plants have a distinct trait in their pollen grains of exhibiting three colpi or grooves paralleling the polar axis.

The voyage was the culmination of four centuries of failed attempts to navigate the Northwest Passage a direct route from Europe to Asia across the Arctic Ocean and remains one of the greatest tragedies in the history of polar exploration.

Let's see if you can get something else. And we got the bear surrendered to we set up a sanctuary. We have four sanctuaries in India.

Idaho In Idaho, the highway partially circumnavigates the Bear Lake which straddles the Utah Idaho state line.