Warming to the idea

Adaptation to climate change is focus of NZ-made nature series with global reach. 

- RUSSELL BROWN

The polar bear has become a popular icon of climate change; clinging forlornly to the shrinking ice, waiting for the end. Early on Dynamic Planet, we meet some bears who aren't taking it lying down.

The first episode of the four-part docuseries features the polar bears of Seal River in northeastern Canada, which, faced with ever-shortening seasons of sea ice - when they would normally eat sufficient seals to tide them through the summer - have begun to adapt their diets and their hunting methods.