Polar bear population decline a wake up call for climate change action
Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears show 40% drop in number
Forty percent. That's the stunning population loss for polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea. The news comes from a new study linking the dramatic decline in this polar bear subpopulation in northeast Alaska and Canada to a loss of sea ice due to climate change.
How does climate change affect polar bears so dramatically? Polar bears rely on sea ice to access the seals that are their primary source of food as well as to rest and breed. With less sea ice every year, polar bears and many other ice-dependent creatures are at risk.
Today's study, published in Ecological Applications, analyzed data on polar bears in northeast Alaska and the Northwest Territories and documented a 40 percent population loss between 2001-2010 from 1,500 to 900 bears.
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Here in Florida, the "Climate Chang deniers paradise," our Republican led Lrgislature and our climate change and history denying Governor actually passed a bill forbidding the words "Climate Chabge" from all state documents as if banning words will change the reality that climate change is real and coral bleaching is obvious to anyone who dives.
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