polar bear stands on melting piece of ice

Volume 59  Issue 1

Winter 2010

Alone on a disappearing ice floe, an Arctic polar bear stands at the precipice of global warming. With life as he knows it threatened by greenhouse gasses, and resulting rising temperatures and declining sea ice, in addition to international trade in the species and its parts, the earth’s largest terrestrial carnivore (called Isbjorn, or ice bear, in Norwegian) faces extinction from a world that has sustained him for 100,000 years. Read more about climate change and endangered species listings.

Photo by Rinie Van Meurs/Foto Natura, Minden Pictures

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