Environmental

New Study: Alaskan Polar Bear Population Has Dropped by 40 Percent

Global Warming Threatens Polar Bears; Two-thirds Could be Gone by 2050

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—(ENEWSPF)–November 17, 2014. l Global warming has driven a 40-percent decline in the number of polar bears in eastern Alaska and western Canada, a new studyfinds. The Southern Beaufort Sea polar bear population has dropped to just 900 bears, a severe decline since the last estimate in 2006 that documented more than 1,500 bears. The Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears live in…

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