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Save the Polar Bear
Posted Oct. 26, 2008: Polar bears could be extinct in 100 years if climate change 
continues to melt the North Pole's ice, scientists say. The most recent scientific report says that all arctic ice could have disappeared completely by the summer of 2070. Bears need the ice to feed. They can smell the seals under the ice and can break through it to catch them, or just wait for them to come up for air. Polar bears have always been able to survive the summers with little food, but now, with longer wait time between the ice forming, they are starving. And starving bears have fewer cubs. Read more on the subject in THE LAST POLAR BEAR, published this year, written by Steven Kazlowski