Fewer polar bear cubs surviving, study finds
Warming, decline in sea ice could be the reason, government experts say
Polar bear cubs in Alaska's Beaufort Sea are much less likely to survive compared to 20 years ago... only 43 percent of polar bear cubs in the southern Beaufort Sea survived their first year during the past five years, compared to a 65 percent survival rate in the late 1980s and early 1990s... The falling survival rate comes as a warming climate has melted much of the sea ice off Alaska's northern coast, limiting polar bears from hunting for food at the ice's edge.
Right now, global warming is 'coming' for animals- such as birds and the polar bears- but soon- too soon?- it will be coming for us.
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