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Vanishing sea ice and deadly polar bear swims — a parable in cold water 0

It doesn’t take much anthropomorphic empathy to size this sad situation up National Geographic reported that Polar Bears International tracked one of its 68 radio-collared female bears on a 687 kilometer (427 mile) 9-day swim, apparently necessitated by melting sea ice. She lost her cub and 22 percent of her body weight in the process. [...]