https://www.prosperitist.com/tags/wildlife/ Recent content in Wildlife on The Prosperitist en-US r@raphaelbauer.com (Raphael Bauer) r@raphaelbauer.com (Raphael Bauer) Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:30:00 +0200 https://www.prosperitist.com/science/the-polar-bears-nobody-counted/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:30:00 +0200r@raphaelbauer.com (Raphael Bauer) https://www.prosperitist.com/science/the-polar-bears-nobody-counted/ <p>The polar bear has a public relations problem in both directions. For two decades it has been the face of the melting Arctic, thin and stranded on a shrinking floe. For almost as long there has been a counter-claim: polar bear numbers have gone <em>up</em>, not down, four- or fivefold since the 1960s, while the ice retreated the whole time. If the ice is the bears&rsquo; habitat and the ice is going, how can there be more bears?</p>