
French spatial scientist Marie-Anne Blanchet, shows a GPS tracking map of female polar bears over the course of a year, in a laboratory onboard the science icebreaker vessel 'Kronprins Haakon' while sailing in eastern Spitzbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, on April 17, 2025. The Norwegian Polar Institute, an Arctic research organisation, organised a five-week expedition aboard the high-tech research vessel and icebreaker Kronprins Haakon to collect adipose tissue biopsies and blood samples from polar bears in order to study the impact of pollutants on their health. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP via Getty Images)

