Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks
Group: Polar bears are starving, drowning, resorting to cannibalism By Marsha Walton (CNN) — Summer is over in the northern hemisphere, but it’s been another chilling season for researchers who study Arctic sea ice. "It’s definitely a bad report. We did pick up little bit from last year, but this is over 30 percent below what used to be normal," said Walt Meier, a research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. … "The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears," according to Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. "They are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the ice melts and global warming transforms the Arctic, polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they don’t have access to their usual food sources." … "The Arctic is kind of the early warning system of the climate," Meier said. "It is the canary in the coal mine, and the canary is definitely in trouble."
