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Title: Polar bears drown as polar caps melt


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Polar bears drown as polar caps melt
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Polar bears scientific classification.
Kingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass
MammaliaOrder CarnivoraFamily UrsidaeGenus
UrsusSpecies Ursus maritimus
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Natural range
  • Wrangel Island and western Alaska
  • Northern Alaska
  • Canadian Arctic archipelago
  • Greenland
  • Svalbard-Franz Josef Land
  • North-Central Siberia

Artic circle (North)
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Why they are threatened.
  • Hunt
  • Less prey
  • Global warming

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Global warming a real threat?
  • Polar bears have to swim between ice rocks to
    find decent food.
  • Global warming makes the ice melt.

Distance between ice rocks increases.
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Consequences
  • A bear can easily swim upto 15 miles.
  • But a 100 is way out of league.

They drown
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STOP GLOBAL WARMING
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