A group of Canadian scientists attached GoPro cameras to GPS collars on 20 polar bears in the Hudson Bay area in northeastern ...

Resting on a solitary slab of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, a majestic creature sparkles in the polar summer sunshine.

While global polar bear numbers are estimated between 22,000 and 31,000, the impact of climate change isn’t uniform. Some subpopulations, like those in western Hudson Bay, are in steep decline.

Most polar bears live north of the Arctic Circle to the North Pole. This includes Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland and Norway.

By mid-August, Churchill’s polar bears had been off the Hudson Bay sea ice for 60 days, essentially fasting until it would freeze over in late October or November.

A polar bear was spotted jumping off a rock and into the pool at the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium in Toledo, Ohio. See the young visitors encourage the polar bear to make its big move!

Kali, the polar bear looks for food on International Polar Bear Day at the Saint Louis Zoo in St. Louis on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Kali was born in 2013 on the Northwest Alaska coast.