Starving polar bears

Living on Earth: Polar Bears have long been the poster species for the problem of climate change. But a new paper in Conservation Letters argues that supplemental feeding may be necessary to prevent polar bear populations from going extinct. Polar bear expert Andrew Derocher from the University of Alberta joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss how we can save the largest bear on the planet. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. The polar bear has become an icon of the melting arctic, the...

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