Can We Save Polar Bears By Moving Them to Antarctica?
Polar bear scientist Scott Schliebe of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service responds to this suggestion. Although it may seem an obvious solution, he says, the risks outweigh the benefits.

Ask the Experts: Drilling in the Arctic
What is the significance of drilling for oil in one of the last polar bear habitats on the planet? Dr. Steven Amstrup, polar bear project leader for the US Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center, addresses this.

Ask the Experts: Are Polar Bear Populations Increasing?
Some recent media reports have cited inaccurate data concerning polar bears. For clarification on polar bear numbers, we turned to Dr. Andrew Derocher, Chair of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group.

Ask the Experts: Supplementary Feeding
Why can't we just air-drop food to hungry polar bears to ensure their survival? Dr. Steven Amstrup, polar bear project leader for the US Geological Survey in Alaska answers this question.

Ask the Experts: Could polar bears learn to hunt like grizzlies?
We posed the following question, which concerns the feasibility of training polar bears to live like grizzlies, to Dr. Andrew Derocher, chair of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group and a polar bear scientist with the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Ask the Experts: Position of Canadian Scientists
Are Canadian scientists opposed to listing the polar bear as threatened, as some news organizations have reported? To set the record straight, we asked for comments from Canadian polar bear scientist Andrew Derocher, who also chairs the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group.

Satellite Collars
Scientists who study polar bears gather valuable data from satellite collars. But how do they work? And what information do they gather? This Q & A column features an exchange on this topic between two PBI Advisory Council members, JoAnne Simerson and Dr.

Ask The Experts: Floating Platforms
This question concerns the possibility of providing floating platforms for polar bears to rest on in the absence of sea ice. It was posed independently by several people as a possible solution to diminishing ice coverage in the Far North.