Ask the Experts: How Did Polar Bears Survive Earlier Warming Trends?
We posed the following question to Dr. Andrew Derocher, professor of biology at the University of Alberta and chair of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. More...

Ask the Experts: Can We Save Polar Bears By Moving Them to Antarctica?
Polar bear scientist Scott Schliebe of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service responds to this suggestion. Although it may seem an obvious solution, he says, the risks outweigh the benefits. More...

Ask the Experts: Are Polar Bear Populations Increasing?
Question: I'm confused about polar bear numbers. Some news reports state that polar bears should not be listed as a threatened species—they state that, in fact, their numbers are actually increasing. More...

Ask the Experts: Could polar bears learn to hunt like grizzlies?
We posed the following question, which concerns the feasibility of training polar bears to live like grizzlies, to Dr. Andrew Derocher, chair of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group and a polar bear scientist with the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. More...

Ask the Experts: Position of Canadian Scientists
Are Canadian scientists opposed to listing the polar bear as threatened, as some news organizations have reported? To set the record straight, we asked for comments from Canadian polar bear scientist Andrew Derocher, who also chairs the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. More...

Ask the Experts: Why Do Scientists Use Satellite Collars?
Scientists who study polar bears gather valuable data from satellite collars. But how do they work? And what information do they gather? The following questions on satellite collars were answered by Dr. More...

Ask The Experts: Floating Platforms
This question concerns the possibility of providing floating platforms for polar bears to rest on in the absence of sea ice. It was posed independently by several people as a possible solution to diminishing ice coverage in the Far North. More...