{"id":259701,"date":"2026-01-30T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259701\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:07:07","slug":"polar-bears-on-norwegian-islands-fatter-and-healthier-despite-ice-loss-scientists-say-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259701\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5DOTBfeHQ0RHdEX2VfTDJRMktIZWpMLUV3bzRyekJLeVptT0Jpa0xBUjFoY09rQzdFRnB5ZnJldHVudU5yMlQ2a2J4NVU4a1dETmdxTUlBMmROZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxOTXF4TTNZcjE3c0YzQVFTeXpxME1WcC0wUE9NaGhSbGM3LUNqM3kxWXVWeEFkdmV2cUROSEhTdkJwemMtVlQ5aU0zWW14OHJOcXIxMExZbmhDUjlRWHhGSjlFS0d1ZzFOVlc4aHNkSmlzSy1sVzhGaW04NzNWNTBWelliMFRITW0zbEJBZnc3cEIzLUF1RjVHMG5ROUNoUzg4eDF4OW9Baw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norway&#8217;s polar bears defy odds by bulking up, despite shrinking sea ice<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Australian Broadcasting Corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiX0FVX3lxTFByN1lkWnBVS2dEbHg0Ui1zajd3MjF4d3RqV21vSmg5MUJhWlNnSFVHM1FUYk1RR0puR0h3S1h0VlozZ1BtYUw0dlMwck5QV2FMVzJWS2xyck1IRUxZRkpN?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Body condition among Svalbard Polar bears Ursus maritimus during a period of rapid loss of sea ice | Scientific Reports<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCNorway&#8217;s polar bears defy odds by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-259701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}