Scientists have documented a worrying new pattern in the Arctic: polar bears, increasingly stranded on land by vanishing sea ice, are raiding seabird nesting grounds on a scale never before seen in Alaska.
A study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Cooper Island Arctic Research, published in Polar Research, links the behaviour directly to the collapse of the bears’ traditional hunting grounds.
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