Polar bear numbers in Hudson Bay of Canada on verge of collapse
Climate change is warming the Arctic and melting its ice cover, with grave consequences

Melting ice is cutting polar bears off from their food source in Hudson Bay, and death rates have soared. Photograph: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images
Polar bear populations are a sensitive topic for the Canadian government, which has faced international criticism for its policies onclimate change and for allowing limited hunting of bears, mainly by indigenous communities.
The Canadian environment minister provoked outrage last October when she discounted abundant scientific studies of polar bear decline across the Arctic, saying her brother, a hunter, was having no trouble finding bears.
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