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The population of polar bears are locally recovering from the major culls of the 1960s and 1970s that came about due to the availability of snow scooters; however, the polar bear remains threatened at a global level, due to unsustainable levels of killing by humans and marine water pollution. [2]
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can interbreed.The polar bear is the largest extant species of bear and land carnivore, with adult males weighing 300–800 kg (660–1,760 lb).
In physical geography, tundra (/ ˈ t ʌ n d r ə, ˈ t ʊ n-/) is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. There are three regions and associated types of tundra: Arctic tundra, [2] alpine tundra, [2] and Antarctic tundra.
The story of Pants Bear and his family started in 2018, but the true start of Pants Bear, the teddy bear, stretches back to the early 1990s in Finland. Where a special teddy bear with bright green pants found his way into the young hands of Dr. Taavi Kuisma, the now author of Pants Bear.
The human population density is one of the lowest on Earth and sits at 1 person per 100 km 2. [6] It consists of some of the world's most uninhabitable places yet also is home to extensive herds of caribou. [6] It also contains vast ice fields, mountain glaciers, mountain peaks, shattered rock, ponds, lakes and U-shaped valleys. [6]
Arctic fox, polar bear, caribou% [1] The Canadian Arctic tundra is a biogeographic designation for Northern Canada 's terrain generally lying north of the tree line or boreal forest , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] that corresponds with the Scandinavian Alpine tundra to the east and the Siberian Arctic tundra to the west inside the circumpolar tundra belt ...
The name Spitsbergen, meaning "pointed mountains" (from the Dutch spits - pointed, bergen - mountains), [6] at first applied both to the main island and to the associated archipelago as a whole. In the 17th and 18th centuries, English whalers referred to the islands as "Greenland", [ 7 ] a practice still followed in 1780 and criticized by ...
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