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flag Polar bears are using an abandoned Russian research station on Kolyuchin Island as shelter due to climate change.

flag Drone footage from September 2025 shows polar bears occupying an abandoned Russian research station on Kolyuchin Island, near Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula and across the Bering Strait from Alaska. flag Photographer Vadim Makhorov captured images of bears resting inside the derelict buildings, suggesting they use the structure as a shelter due to warming temperatures and shrinking sea ice. flag The station, uninhabited since the 1990s, now serves as an unintended refuge amid increasing human-wildlife interactions in the Arctic.

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