National Geographic news1 年
Starving-Polar-Bear Photographer Recalls What Went Wrong
The connection between an individual animal’s death and climate change is rarely clear—even when an animal is as emaciated as this polar bear. Photographer Paul Nicklen and I are on a mission ...
BBC7 年
Polar bear video: Is it really the 'face of climate change'?
It is harrowing footage. An emaciated polar bear searches for food on Baffin Island, north-eastern Canada. Exhausted, it drags one leg slowly behind it, eventually trying to eat some discarded ...
BBC6 年
Polar bears 'running out of food'
The vision of a polar bear plucking a vulnerable seal off an ice floe is something familiar to wildlife documentary fanatics. Earlier this winter, though, an image of an emaciated polar bear went ...
The Georgia Straight7 年
Video of starving polar bear in Canada's Arctic re-ignites conversations about climate change
It shows an emaciated polar bear on the coast of Baffin Island, in Nunavut. The short film was captured last August by Sea Legacy, an ocean-conservation group that uses media to explain how humans ...
The war on polar bears
In 2011, a trip-wire designed to alert a group camping near Longyearbyen failed, and a polar bear "reported to be starving ...