According to environmental group WWF, the retreating sea ice is more frequently bringing polar bears into confrontation with humans who live on land. -AFP filepic
PARIS: Polar bears are losing life-sustaining sea ice crucial for hunting, resting and breeding in all 19 regions of the Arctic they inhabit, a study warned on Wednesday.
As climate change pushes up Arctic temperatures, ice is melting earlier in spring and re-freezing later in autumn, a team of researchers reported in The Cryosphere, a journal of the European Geosciences Union.
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