Polar Bears

Did you know that polar bears have been found drowned in the ocean? Seems that they are incredible swimmers and will swim from one ice patch to another. But the ice patches are melting and they are having to swim much farther than accustomed to find food.

"However, last summer the ice cap receded about 200 miles further north than the average of two decades ago, forcing the bears to undertake far longer voyages between floes. " Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts. December 18, 2005. The Sunday Times.

"As is well-known by now, NASA reported at summer's end that, over the last 30 years, the Arctic's summer sea ice cover had melted back 30 percent. As a number of scientists have calculated, it could be completely gone long before the end of the century." "At this winter's worldwide global-warming conference in Montreal, the U.S. came under a great deal of criticism from almost all the other countries for refusing to participate in any formal discussions about how to try to cut greenhouse emissions, and how to try to slow the warming that has already started to disrupt so much life around the world. " Scientists Sound Warning on Global Warming. Why Santa may soon need a boat. By Bill Blakemore. ABC News. December 15, 2005.