This summer saw the second-lowest sea ice levels in the Arctic in the fifty years since they started tracking it.  This ice serves the greater global purpose of moderating weather and temperatures throughout the world.  Less ice equals a bigger environmental impact.  Yeah, so?  That’s global warming/climate change: nothing new.

Here’s what’s new: This lack of ice is having a significant effect on polar bears, and other Arctic inhabitants.  Polar bears are starving, drowning and even resorting to cannibalism because they can’t get their usual food.  And, as of right now, polar bears are considered a “threatened” species.  Read more…

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