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Mother Polar Bear Swims Nine Days in Search of Ice

February 3, 2011
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Mother Polar Bear Swims Nine Days in Search of Ice

It was an epic feat of endurance: a mother polar bear, forced to swim for nine straight days in nearly freezing water … in desperate search of solid ice. Miraculously, she survived. But her year-old cub didn’t. It is the kind of heartbreaking story that scientists fear we will see more and more often in years to come, as global warming melts the sea ice habitat that polar bears need to survive. As if...

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