Figure 1: Polar bears on the shore of
Hudson Bay waiting for the sea ice to
reform. Sea ice melts about 3 weeks earlier
now than only a few decades ago.
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Figure 2:
Figure 2: A polar bear cub caught with its
mother in the Beaufort Sea during a
research program to deploy satellite
telemetry collars to examine polar bear -
sea ice
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Figure 3:
Figure 3: Senior author Andrew Derocher
with a 4 month old polar bear cub caught in
the Beaufort Sea during a population
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