{"id":140769,"date":"2022-06-18T16:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-find-secret-polar-bear-clan-hidden-for-centuries-in-greenland"},"modified":"2022-06-18T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T21:03:46","slug":"scientists-find-secret-polar-bear-clan-hidden-for-centuries-in-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-find-secret-polar-bear-clan-hidden-for-centuries-in-greenland","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Secret Polar Bear Clan Hidden For Centuries in Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-secret-polar-bear-clan-hidden-for-centuries-in-greenland2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around 300 secret polar bears have been secluded from other bear populations in Greenland for about 200 years, scientists said Thursday when they published a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abk2793?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D01647085215733891841041261644073558045%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1655138740&_ga=2.202861783.716829638.1655110992-1492079976.1608110151\" class=\"\">in the journal <em>Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bears live in sea-ice conditions that reserachers say mimic what other parts of the Arctic will look like as climate change progresses. Their territory lacks ice more than 100 days over the previous limit known to sustain polar bears because they have adapted to use freshwater glacial ice instead. The population is now the world\u2019s 20th polar bear subpopulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolar bears are one of the most mentioned\u2014and iconic\u2014potential victims of climate change,\u201d co-authors wrote in the study. \u201cMost polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt. Discovery of this population suggests both that such environments might serve as refugia for polar bears and that conservation of this new population is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 300 secret polar bears have been secluded from other bear populations in Greenland for about 200 years, scientists said Thursday when they published a new study in the journal Science. The bears live in sea-ice conditions that reserachers say mimic what other parts of the Arctic will look like as climate change progresses. Their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}