Pharrell looks to save the polar bears with his latest collaboration, a partnership between MINI USA and Pharrell’s design label, Icecream. Dropping an exclusive merch collection on NTWRK featuring a variety of Icecream products emblazed with MINI’s new Mini Electric car, Pharrell and MINI are donating 100 percent of the proceeds to Polar Bears International, the non-profit polar bear conservation organization.

There's no show. Just polar bears. Polar Bears International (PBI) and Explore.org have restarted their annual polar bear live cam for the season. The stream starts annually in late October and runs through mid-November, with an eye on having some great streams during Polar Bear Week from October 30 to November 5.

We have a day’s break in between bear-spotting to go dog-sledding and visit Polar Bears International House, an interpretative centre where we learn how to support the PBI’s conservation efforts.

Daniel Cox is a Minnesota native who researches and documents climate change's impact on polar bears.

He worked on the Arctic Documentary Project with Polar Bears International.

One of the most recognisable parts of the brand’s packaging – besides the pretty green colour – is the polar bear, which represents their support of Polar Bears International.

Furthermore, part of its sales proceeds go towards Polar Bears International in Canada to help further the conservation and protection efforts for polar bears.

Frontiers North Adventures is a platinum sponsor for Polar Bears International “Our mission is to ensure the polar bears long-term survival – and we invite you to join us on this journey. Together, we can make sure that the polar bears roam the sea ice for generations to come and improve conditions for people too. After all, the polar bear’s future is not separate from our own. Their story is our story. And as a visitor to Churchill, and a citizen of the world, you too, are a part of this story.”

To celebrate Earth Day, Disney+ released Polar Bear, the latest documentary from Disneynature, the studio behind Earth, Oceans, and Penguins. Like previous Disneynature documentaries, there is a light plot that drives the film, as we follow a mother polar bear preparing her cubs to venture out on their own in the world. But the main appeal here is getting to watch polar bears hang out for a couple of hours, while getting some quality narration from two-time Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener. It's like getting to take an Arctic vacation without having to leave your couch. If you are a fan of gorgeous nature documentaries, Polar Bear is just what you're looking for.

The London Project says it is an advocate for the protection of the bears through its ongoing support to Polar Bears International, a non-profit conservation organisation. Throughout summer, guests visiting the venue could be randomly gifted a symbolic eco-adoption certificate of cubs or adult polar bears.

In terms of travel, “for a polar bear, that’s nothing,” says Steven Amstrup. He’s a zoologist who was not involved in the study. But he knows these bears; he’s chief scientist of the conservation organization Polar Bears International, based in Bozeman, Mont. “Apparently,” he says, those southeast Greenland bears are “finding enough resources there that they don’t have to make these huge, big movements.”
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It’s not entirely surprising that polar bears have settled at the fronts — or toes — of glaciers in the fjords, Amstrup says. “Oftentimes, the toes of these glaciers are very productive areas,” he says, meaning rich sources of food. Glacial meltwater can flush nutrients from deeper in the ocean up toward the water’s surface. This can draw fish to the area. Seals that go out to feed on these fish, he suspects, might end up as a bear’s dinner.

Scientists predict that as climate change reshapes the Arctic, glaciers in fjords will remain intact longer than sea ice, potentially creating refugia—temporary holdouts amid unfavorable living conditions—for species such as polar bears that rely on ice for hunting.

But that doesn’t mean the “salvation of polar bears,” explains Steven Amstrup, chief scientist at the conservation organization Polar Bears International and former director for 30 years of Alaskan polar bear research at the United States Geological Survey.
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Amstrup hopes the research “will encourage scientists and managers to do some surveys of where else in the Arctic” glaciers could help polar bears hold on longer.
“If anything, this study really is another piece of evidence of the fundamental relationship between polar bears and ice-covered water,” he says. “Do they really care if that ice is fresh water or salt water? Probably not, as long as there are seals underneath it.”

Populations isolated by genetic mutations are often more vulnerable from an evolutionary standpoint, according to Steven Amstrup, chief scientist for Polar Bears International at National Geographic. And, in addition, he left a prediction: in the future it will be more and more common for new fragmentations of bears to arise, due to the new climatic conditions.

“These areas might see polar bears persist for longer,” said Steven Amstrup, the chief scientist at Polar Bears International, who is not affiliated with the new study. If the bears didn’t have abundant glacial ice, he said, “we wouldn’t have polar bears in that area right now.”

Whether polar bears use sea ice or ice from glaciers, "the general contours of the story are the same — climate change melt and ice retreat," said John Whiteman, chief research scientist at Polar Bears International. Whiteman was not involved in the new study.

Heading north for the Arctic Documentary Project and polar bears has taken me back to Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay. I just came back from Wat’chee Lodge in the heart of Wapusk National Park. A place I haven’t been since 2008. It’s here that I hope to find mother polar bears exiting their dens with tiny, little cubs in tow. For those who don’t know, the Arctic Documentary Project falls under the non-profit umbrella of Polar Bears International. An organization I’ve dedicated myself to for the past twenty years.