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Polar Bears are on thin ice!

Polar Bears are on thin ice!. Scientists have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.

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Polar Bears are on thin ice!

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  1. Polar Bearsare on thin ice!

  2. Scientists have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf. • The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart. • Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to the shore. Their sea journeys leave them vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia or being swamped by waves.

  3. Global Warming/Polar Bear Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1cyUmx5htA

  4. Light gray covered land is where the polar bears are located. Which is most of the ice covered sea’s and northern hemisphere .

  5. Poor bears 

  6. Ice Caps are melting Because… • Temperatures are increasing • Ice caps are melting but there is not enough precipitation to make more ice.

  7. What will happen if polar bears became extinct?

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