Friday, January 13, 2006

Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts

Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts - Sunday Times - Times Online

Global climate change alert.

Those cute cuddly polar bears. They are drowning because the ice is receding in their habitat. This study showed that it is normal for them to swim 15 miles (up to possibly 100 miles). However when the ice receded 200 miles further north, that proved too much for some of the bears and they died of exhaustion, hypothermia, and just plain drowning.

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