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Svalbard’s chubby bears upend catastrophe talk—echoing Trump’s swagger and Gates’s pivot to adaptation.
A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the sea ice melts rapidly.
The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree.