This is part of the epic six-part underwater discovery series OCEANXPLORERS, co-produced by BBC Studios Natural History Unit and OceanX for National Geographic.

Kingdom of the Polar Bear (39min)

The team brings the OceanXplorer to Svalbard, Norway. This ice world is changing faster than anywhere else on Earth. The team’s mission is to figure out if Svalbard’s polar bears are adapting to their environment. To do so, they come face-to-face with this giant of the Arctic Ocean and scale a glacier to learn how much time is left for one of the most critical habitats for polar bears.

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Melissa Marquez and glaciologist Andreas Alexander are on top of a glacier in Svalbard getting ready to deploy a ‘drifter,’ a piece of technology used to measure water temperature, speed, and depth of the glacial melt water. (National Geographic)