In the Arctic, global warming is occurring three or four times faster than elsewhere in the world, recent studies indicate. | via philstarlife
Sprawled on rocky ground far from sea ice, a lone Canadian polar bear sits under a dazzling sun, his white fur useless as camouflage.
Every year from late June, when the bay ice disappears—shrinking until it dots the blue vastness like scattered confetti—the bears must move onto shore to begin a period of forced fasting.But that period is lasting longer and longer as temperatures rise. "There could be a beluga whale carcass they might be able to find, naive seal near shore, but generally they're just fasting. They lose nearly a kilogram of body weight every day that they're on land," said Geoff York, a biologist for Polar Bears International . An AFP team joined him on an expedition.
These days, this super predator of the Arctic sometimes has to feed on seaweed, as a mother and her cub were seen doing not far from the port of Churchill, the Manitoba town and self-declared"polar bear capital."
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