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Wi-Fi in the Wild: Countdown to Polar Bear Season

Internetting isn’t easy in the North. Each year, Explore.org and Polar Bears International set up multiple live-streaming cameras across the sub-Arctic tundra, letting people from all over the world watch the annual polar bear migration. It may seem simple to get Internet anywhere we want it these days, but securing a fast-streaming HD connection way up north is another story.