While Arctic sea ice reached a record low this summer, it is not widely known that almost all the ice that melted or drifted away was on the Russian, not the Canadian and Greenlandic side of the great northern sea. One immediate consequence has been further grief and peril for Russia’s already seriously distressed polar bear population…. Source
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