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This website talks about the polar bears going hungry as the ice melts away. 1. Leahy, S. (ND). Polar Bears Go Hungry as Icy Habitat Melts Away, Retrieved December 9, 2009. from http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35524 This website talks about polar bears drowning as the ice melts away. Polar bears catch seals on the ice, but now that the ice is melting, they can't catch seals and are starving. Over the past 10 to 20 years, the number of polar bears has dropped by 20%. Polar bears are shrinking in size because when the females have, a baby, their milk doesn't have that much nutrition to let the cub grow to the right size. People say that polar bears wont survive without their ice habitat. 2. Iredale, W. (December 18, 2009.) Times Online. Retrieved December 9, 2009 from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article767459.ece This website is about the polar bears drowning as the ice melts away. Researchers found out that polar bears have to swim 60 miles to find food because the ice is melting and shifting farther apart. Now polar bears are vulnerable to hypothermia and exhaustion because of their long sea journeys. According to a news report 4 dead polar bears were found floating in the ocean.Polar bears are slowly dieing off. This website is about how the change in the climate is affecting the polar bears. 3. Defendorf, R. (December 17, 2009.) Polar bears and climate change: A polarizing issue, Retrieved December 9, 2009 from http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6146066-7.html This website is about the climate changing where the polar bears live. People say that the ice is melting because of industries carbon dioxide output. Ice is melting faster where the polar bears hunt and that means they get a shorter hunting season, so the polar bears are getting smaller. Polar bear's numbers are growing smaller over the years. Now polar bears are under the endangered species list.

Not a Problem This website says that hunting polar bears is not a problem. 4. Hansen, J. (Febuary 5, 2009.) Arctic Council. Retrieved December 9, 2009 from http://arctic-council.org/article/2008/2/hunting_polar_bears_is_not_the_problem This website says that polar bears being endangered is not a problem. Other people say that we don't need polar bears. Hunting polar bears is not a problem. They say if they stop killing polar bears, they won't have any money. Then, they said that they are killing polar bears at a sustainable level.