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Polar Bears to start dying off in 10 years; climate change
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German photographer Kerstin Langenberger posted this photo of a gaunt female polar bear to her Facebook page last month. She’s been photographing polar bears in the Svalbard, Norway, region of the Arctic Ocean, and has noticed that the mother bears, who have to stay on land to give birth, are much thinner than the male polar bears who can spend the entire year out on the pack ice, where there’s more food to hunt.
Despite uncertainty whether the bears died of disease, old age or injury, or were starved to death, polar bears are listed as threatened and vulnerable on the Endangered Species Act and the IUCN Red List. Predictions of an ice-free Arctic region in the next 50 years cannot possibly be a good thing for wildlife in the Arctic.
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If the human world doesn’t sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions soon, the authors write, the polar bear population of Alaska, Russia and Norway, which makes up one-third of the world’s population of the bears, is likely to begin plummeting by 2025, the Associated Press reports. Polar bears in Canada and Greenland will start dying off 25 years after that.
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