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The Polar Bear, Climate Change’s Poster Child, Ignites Controversy

The Polar Bear, Climate Change’s Poster Child, Ignites Controversy

By Jason Bittel Twenty years ago, polar bears made people think of Coca-Cola. Ten years ago, the bruins became the face of climate change because their melting Arctic ice habitat perfectly captured the dangers of a warming world. More recently, as a direct result of the bears’ environmental poster child status, science deniers have begun […]

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    WATCH LIVE CAM: Annual Polar Bear Migration

    WATCH LIVE CAM: Annual Polar Bear Migration

    Explore.org welcomes back the mystical polar bear species to Pearls of the Planet live nature cam family for another season. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1340284565984477/ expand=1] The live cameras are being hosted with nonprofit Polar Bears International, which is dedicated to conserving polar bears and the sea ice they depend on. Frontiers North Adventures, a long time ecotourism […]