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The usual expert advice is that:

two-thirds of the world’s polar bears — including all of those in Alaska and most of Canada’s western Arctic — will be gone by 2050. The only ones remaining, the panel warned, will be those animals inhabiting the High Arctic regions of Canada and western Greenland.

That opinion was given by the U.S. Geological Survey in a report a little more than a year ago according to an article recently reporting that more polar bears are now going hungry than they were two decades ago.

Care has to be taken about what conclusions can be drawn from the evidence. Apparently the study found that “nearly a third of the bears sampled were going without food longer than they normally would.” But this was in only one area – the Beaufort Sea which is located just north of the border between Alaska and Canada in the western Arctic.

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