This wasn’t an isolated sighting but part of a pattern that has recently been documented. In January 2026, a research paper was published in which researchers measured the body weight of 770 bears in Svalbard between 1995 and 2019, a period that coincided with one of the most rapid losses of sea ice ever recorded anywhere bears live.
The Barents Sea had been losing sea ice at roughly four days per year, more than twice as fast as any other polar bear…
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