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https://www.juneauempire.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2023/06/32902738_web1_1.-polar-bear.jpg20481536In a recent paper, scientists wrote that a small population of polar bears living off Greenland and Arctic Canada increased by 1.6 times when they compared the numbers from the 1990s to 2013 and 2014. They concluded that lighter sea ice might have benefitted the animals.