By Julien Mivielle, AFP
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Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds by bulking up instead of wasting away, a study said.
The Barents Sea has lost sea ice faster than other areas with polar bears as temperatures have risen there more than in other Arctic regions, according to the research published in the journal Scientific Reports.
But instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic where the sea ice where they hunt is retreating, those in Sval
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