Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.
Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.
… and yet they survived the last interglacial, warmer than ours, with no sea ice in the arctic during summer.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01227-x
That’ll work out a lot better for them if people don’t just shoot them every time they see them on land.