Published on : 12 Dec 2025, 6:36 am Listen to this article

The beleaguered polar bear, the symbol of the warming Arctic, could be putting up a fight to survive in its changing environment. A subset of bears in the southeastern part of Greenland is changing its DNA to survive as its home warms, according to a new study by the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

The study analysed blood samples taken from polar bears in northeastern (12 bears) and southeastern (five bears) Greenland to compare the activity of so-called ‘jumping genes’ — small, mobile pieces of the genome that can influence how other genes work — their relationship with temperatures in the two regions and associated changes in gene expression.

According to the scientists, while temperatures in northeaste

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