Svalbard is still ice-free this fall, which it has been rather consistently for at least ten years but the amount of sea ice greater than ‘normal’ in the Eastern Canadian Arctic at this date is something to behold. Yet contrary to predictions, polar bears in Svalbard are thriving.
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Tagged baffin bay, Barents Sea, Davis Strait, Franz Josef Land, freeze-up, Hudson Bay, polar bear, sea ice, Svalbard, western hudson bay
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