Global Warming Puts Alaska’s Polar Bears In Peril

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There is some deeply troubling news for polar bears: A brand new study finds that global warming has driven a 40 percent decline in the number of these bears in eastern Alaska and western Canada. The Southern Beaufort Sea population was estimated to be 1,500 in 2006. Today, according to the study, it’s dwindled to just 900.

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Global warming has put Alaska’s polar bears in a deadly downward spiral,” said the Center for Biological Diversity’s Sarah Uhlemann. “It’s happening now, it’s killing polar bears now, and if we don’t act now, we will lose polar bears in Alaska.”

The Center secured Endangered Species Act protection for polar bears in 2008, but if we’re going to make sure these great bears of the north survive, we’ve got to cut the greenhouse gas pollution that’s melting their Arctic homes. Without help, scientists predict, two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be gone by 2050.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times and sign our petition to save polar bears.

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