15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Polar bears family

On a frozen fjord in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago near the north pole, a beautiful family of polar bears was roaming around, searching for food. The little cubs learned from their mom how to adjust to the extreme conditions, that becoming worse with climate change, in the Arctic.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Svalbard, Norway
Camera: NIKON D810
Copyright: © Galitz Roie