Polar bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Be

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Polar bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears spend the summer on the island and look for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.

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Photo credit: © Dennis Fast/VWPICS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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