An extremely worrying study
The melting ice is forcing the carnivores to roam for long distances or on to shore, where they struggle to find food and feed their cubs.
The findings match previous projections that the majority of polar bear populations are unlikely to survive the next 100 years if climate change continues unabated.‘Showing how imminent the threat is for different polar bear populations is another reminder that we must act now to head off the worst of future problems faced by us all,’ he said.‘The trajectory we’re on now is not a good one, but if society gets its act together, we have time to save polar bears.
The bear has become the ‘poster child of climate change’, said Dr Peter Molnar of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
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