Polar bears desperate on thin ice: Watch chilling footage
Polar bear. Photo by Flickr user mape_s used under a Creative Commons License
In my Dec. 3 copy of the weekly e-newsletter of the Center for Biological Diversity is a commentary on the plight of polar bears in the melting Arctic. Sad. You can see for yourself below. /Gary
ENDANGERED EARTH ONLINE:
Conditions for polar bears in the melting Arctic are worse than imagined.
Since sea ice hit a record low in 2007, scientists studying satellite images had hoped it was recovering. But two weeks ago, a survey revealed that ice shown by satellites to be relatively old and thick is actually thin and fragile — multiyear layers of ice once up to 33 feet thick now can’t even support a single bear, leaving the iconic animal with fewer and fewer places of refuge in the summer.
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Posted on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
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