Polar bear sightings surge in small Canadian town due to lack of sea ice



The town of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada is known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.” Tourists go out on the tundra to see them in the wild. Now, as climate change shrinks their natural habitat, more and more bears are going into town. NBC News’ Anne Thompson follows the officials charged with keeping the bears out of town and speaks with Polar Bears International’s Geoff York about why this is happening.

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42 comments

  1. They have been there for decades, stop with the climate fear mongering.

  2. learn more about polar bear and support conservation

  3. Bring in some fish for them! Start a collection! I'll donate!

  4. I bailed out of going to Hudson Bay this season because of the anticipated lack of sea ice formation. And based on what I saw on the polar bear cams, there wasn't a whole lot of action along the banks of Hudson Bay with bears congregating to take the journey on their temporary floating ice home. Sad.

  5. No one has ever shown that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming…

  6. They are starving. They are only coming to town because they can smell food there. They need help. The lack of ice matters because seals hunt for fish under the ice and they come up for air where are the polar bears can eat them. We need to create artificial ice floes so that the seals will return. Then the polar bears would not come into town. These artificial ice flows could be placed far enough away that the bears wouldn't even be tempted.

  7. They will end up eating people and animals.

  8. climate change is BS only fools believe in it

  9. Pretty soon they will be the size of a koala bear.

  10. Polar bears are at great risk in an urban environment, so sad, because they are obviously desperate for food. 😞

  11. There are more polar bears overall then there ever has been…. Look it up

  12. you should expect this when you don’t hunt them it’s called overcrowding where else are they supposed to go?

  13. Lol. Even humans are dying from climate change. This is no surprise.

    I won’t be surprise more wars will break out soon as humans need to fight for habitable living spaces on Earth. Last man standing game.

  14. The polar bears are more at risk do to the brown bears invading from the south and the number of female polar bears that keep trying to breed with black bears

  15. ATLANTIS /445,000 – 12,000):It was a series of comets striking the large ice sheets which caused a huge mudslide across north America, taking some of western Africa into the sea that caused the last great flood,yes it's more results of celestial climate change,not greenhouse gases scientists, again Genesis 1 verse 6 = 4.5 billion years ago set Nibiru's orbit in our solar system,it holds the central position ,it set the winter/summer solstice here on earth,they saw it make a crossing/ passover 2000 years ago but misidentified it calling it the Star of Bethlehem, that's not what it was respectfully,Uphold Universal law :love thy neighbors work together and survive as a race of human beings,is all we can do ,we have no power to change the celestial mechanics of the situation that is very misleading and arrogant

  16. 100% propaganda folks.
    They're there for the food.

  17. But wait, Al Gore told us these bears would be extinct years ago!

  18. This is BS ! The bears are overpopulated.

  19. You are stealing the futures of the wildlife and your children on the planet by overpopulating the earth.

  20. If you have not figured it out yet, there are too many human beings on the planet.

  21. 🙄 Here we go with fake climate control agenda.

  22. Polar bear eat people or not?

  23. The climate is the issue, we are putting polar bears to extinction. We have got to do better.

  24. That’s sad, very sad.

  25. We hurt the planet which kills their food and we wonder why they come to our areas. It's not rocket science!

  26. Thats sad about those bears

  27. I'm not worried. Since I don't eat bears.

  28. 'Churchill' – couldn't they think of more British name up there in dear old Canada.

  29. This isnt due to climate change. Way to double down on the communist propaganda

  30. Artic Fox is laying there..not a bear in shot towards the end. Just so you know.

  31. Human detroys all including itself😅

  32. Its very sad, polar bears are going to start dying off.

  33. I think that in the near future the environment will become difficult for humans to survive.

  34. Hopefully the protests will start in midtown Manhattan right away to save the bears.

  35. Fox news 'Thousands of polar bears are surging towards America devouring every inch of ice in their path'