CURRENT EVENT | February 28, 2024
Climate change is threatening the world’s polar bear population. The sea ice polar bears use for hunting is disappearing, and many experts fear polar bears may eventually go extinct. However, researchers in southeast Greenland have found a surprisingly large number of bears surviving on ice produced from freshwater glaciers that fall from land into the water. For the bears, this is an alternative to the sea ice on which they typically depend. Listen to learn about this surprising find, and why scientists fear it may only offer polar bears a temporary solution to the catastrophic problems caused by climate change.
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06/16/2022
https://app.listenwise.com/students/events/2587-polar-bears-find-temporary-refuge
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