Christoffer Åhlén
Polar Bears, Churchill
Churchill, a remote town on the western shore of Hudson Bay in northern Canada, calls itself the polar bear capital of the world - over 620 bears resides here. It’s on the frontline of a changing Arctic, where temperatures are rising four times faster than the global average. As the sea ice arrives later each year, polar bears spend longer on land, and more of them edge closer to town.
I traveled to Churchill to document how climate change is changing the relationship between the bears and the people who have learned to live alongside them - and what coexistence looks like when it becomes a matter of survival for both.
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