Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?
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The polar bear became an 'accidental icon' of climate change. Is it time to rethink that?
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Why polar bears are no longer the poster image of climate change
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The polar bear became an 'accidental icon' of climate change. Is
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Polar Bears Against Global Warming
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Polar Bears Live on the Edge of the Climate Change Crisis
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Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100
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Study finds some hope for polar bears in an Arctic with less sea ice - Vox
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Born to Roam - The Suffering of Polar Bears in Zoos by BornFree
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The Arctic has warmed 'nearly four times faster' than the global
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