Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under the midnight sun. We ran to the bow of the boat ...

which comes with a $10,000 prize and a trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. Souders' original captions reads: "A polar bear peers up from beneath the melting sea ice on ...