Polar bears under threat as sea ice shrinks

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A suckling polar bear cub with its mother on the Svalbard archipelago Source: AP / AP

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Research scientists are warning that Polar bears will struggle to birth cubs and will no longer roam many of the Arctic regions they inhabit if global warming increases.

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