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Oddly, unless the paper means to say that individual team members are independently researching a move to Indiana, this is bad grammar.
“Bears explores move.”
(As it was, it took me to the second half of the sentence to realize this wasn’t about wildlife returning to Indiana.)
I know this looks wrong, but we’re just so use to this error that we don’t see it. But ask yourselves, would you say that the United States of America are the greatest nation? If you say, “no, it is the greatest nation,” you see my point. If you say, “no, they comprise the greatest nation,” congratulations. You’re my kind of conservative.

In modern British English the use of a plural verb with a collective noun is perfectly acceptable. So, it's OK for them to write, "My family are moving". In American English the only collective noun we commonly do that with is "police", e.g., "Police are looking for the suspect". Frequently, the wire services employ those who do not know American rules of grammar, especially people from the Indian subcontinent who learn British English. It gets annoying.