Polar bear and reindeer hunting in Greenland still occur but are regulated to avoid endangering the populations.

Polar bears are believed rarely to travel beyond about 82 ° North owing to the scarcity of food, though tracks have been seen in the vicinity of the North Pole, and a 2006 expedition reported sighting a polar bear just from the Pole.

Polar bears can breed with brown bears to produce fertile grizzly – polar bear hybrids, rather than indicating that they have only recently diverged, the new evidence suggests more frequent mating has continued over a longer period of time, and thus the two bears remain genetically similar.

Polar bear

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 due to marine water pollution.

It is the third largest land carnivore ( behind only the Polar bear and the Brown bear ).

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Both Polar and Nether-Polar Urals are typically Alpine ; they bear traces of Pleistocene glaciation, along with permafrost and extensive modern glaciation, that includes 143 extant glaciers.

Polar bear – walrus battles are often extremely protracted and exhausting, and bears have been known to forgo the attack after injuring a walrus.

A Polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ), a member of family Ursidae

* ‘ Arctic Queen ’ (‘ Polar bear ’) ( double white )

Most notable for its venue in weddings, conferences, and banquets, the 400 Supper Club also hosts the annual Polar bear plunge to raise money for the Special Olympics.

Ringed Seal and Bearded Seal, prey of the Polar bear, live in the waters near Bjørnøya, but the formerly common walrus has nowadays become a rare guest.

File: Polar bear 8. JPG | A polar bear in Ranua ; though in a zoo

Polar bear and leopard seal may be hazards in some areas.

Image: Ursus maritimus 2 1996-07-23. jpg | Polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ) stepping on ice flow

Image: Ursus maritimus 3 1999-07-11. jpg | Polar bear mother and two cubs climbing up Guillemot Island

* A brown bear coating himself in baking soda to be acceptable to humans as a polar bear, a young boy selling frozen words, and a woman whose voice cuts through a giant tree to release oranges that light the Polar night are all tales told by a Pomor elder in the Soviet animation film Laughter and Grief by the White Sea.

Image: polar bear singapore zoo sheba inuka. JPG | Polar bears Sheba and Inuka

Polar bear

Still further south lies the Polar front, which is marked by a transition to very cold, relatively fresh, Antarctic Surface Water at the surface.

Polar bears use their fur for warmth and while their skin is black, their transparent fur appears white and provides camouflage while hunting and serves as protection by hiding cubs in the snow.

* 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.

* The Polar Bear ( Family Ursidae ) is sometimes considered a marine mammal because of its dependence on the sea.

According to Nalan Koc of the Norwegian Polar Institute this is the first time it has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972.

Polar expeditions may use any time zone that is convenient, such as Greenwich Mean Time, or the time zone of the country they departed from.

On May 3, 2011, it was announced that Patti Smith is one of the winners of the Polar Music Prize: " By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock ’ n ' roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock ’ n ' roll.

Polar bears can hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

The full history of the subject is described in Harvard professor Julian Lowell Coolidge's Origin of Polar Coordinates.

By topography and other natural features, Ural is divided, from north to south, into the Polar ( or Arctic ), Nether-Polar ( or Sub-Arctic ), Northern, Central and Southern parts.

The Nether-Polar Ural is wider, up to and higher than the Polar Ural, with the highest peaks of the Mount Narodnaya, the Mount Karpinsky ( Urals )) and the Manaraga ).

Between the Atlantic and Polar waters, a front called the Polar Front is formed.

Polar mesospheric clouds are the highest in the atmosphere and occur mostly at altitudes of, which is about ten times the altitude of tropospheric high clouds.

Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre, le Cedre ( Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution ) and the French Polar Institute.

A large portion of the lowlands in the province of Ontario is part of the Polar Bear Provincial Park, and a similar portion of the lowlands in Manitoba is contained in Wapusk National Park, the latter location being a significant Polar Bear maternity denning area.

A large portion of this area is part of the Polar Bear Provincial Park.

Eureka, which is the second northernmost settlement in the world, consists of three areas, " Eureka Aerodrome " which includes " Fort Eureka " ( the quarters for military personnel maintaining the island's communications equipment ), the Environment Canada Weather Station and the Polar Environmental Atmospheric Research Laboratory ( PEARL ), formally the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone ( AStrO ) Observatory.

Northern Lights is a common name for the Aurora Borealis ( Polar Aurorae ) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Translated as Our Polar Flight: The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight, 1925 ; also as My Polar Flight, 1925.

Translated as The First Flight Across the Polar Sea, 1927 ; also as The First Crossing of the Polar Sea, 1927.

At the same time, he also managed the investment of funds and the enormous financial incomes of Polar Music, holding the majority of stocks.

The mountains of the Polar Ural have exposed rock with sharp ridges though flattened or rounded tops are also found.

They also gave an impetus to International Polar Years, meaning a shift from sports-like races of single expeditions to worldwide scientific cooperation in exploring the polar regions.

A raft race and " Polar Bear Jump " are also held.

Polar also offers its customers charter freight services, using its dedicated fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft.

Polar and its sister company, Atlas, also do extensive work for the U. S. Air Force ’ s Air Mobility Command ( AMC ).

The city also hosts an annual Polar Bear Plunge every February.

Finally, the Earth's rotational axis is not exactly fixed with respect to the Earth, but undergoes small fluctuations ( on the order of 15 meters ) called polar motion, which have a small theoretical effect not only on the Tropics and Polar circles, but also on the Equator.

The Norwegian Polar Institute was also relocated to Tromsø from Oslo in 1998.

Home Depot and insulation company Polar Industries has also made a settlement offer of $ 5 million.

The Scirocco name derives from the Italian word for the Sirocco wind — and the period in its history when Volkswagen named vehicles after prominent winds, including also Passat ( after the German word for Trade wind ), Golf ( after Gulf Stream ), Bora ( after Bora ), Polo ( after Polar Winds ), and Jetta ( after Jet stream ).

The Bowdoin College Polar Bears ( the college mascot ) competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference ( NESCAC ), which also includes Amherst, Conn College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams, and Maine rivals Bates and Colby in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium ( CBB ).

Barnacle Geese frequently build their nests high on mountain cliffs ; away from predators ( primarily Arctic Foxes and Polar Bears ) but also away from food.

It also included a two-way UHF radio frequency system to relay communications with Mars Polar Lander upon an expected landing on December 3, 1999.

Production of Cerveza Polar, a 5 % abv lager began during the 1940s, and eventually, the company grew into the largest beer producing company in Venezuela, producing also Solera, Solera Light, Polar Light, Polar ICE and Polar Zero.