Increasing Loss of Spring Sea Ice Taxes Polar Bear Metabolism (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Increasing Loss of Spring Sea Ice Taxes Polar Bear Metabolism (1 of 1)

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Polar bear wearing a GPS video-camera collar on the sea ice of the Beaufort Sea. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 2 February 2018 issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.M. Pagano at U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, AK, and colleagues was titled, "High-energy, high-fat lifestyle challenges an Arctic apex predator, the polar bear."

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Anthony Pagano, USGS

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