Monday 22 December 2014

Warming leads to more run-ins with polar bears

ICE WORLD
Warming leads to more run-ins with polar bears
Kuujjuarapik, Canada (AFP) Dec 19, 2014 - Word spread quickly: a polar bear, then two, were spotted near this remote Inuit village on the shores of Hudson Bay, about 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) north of Montreal. Children were whisked indoors. Hunters armed with rifles set out from Kuujjuarapik on snowmobiles in a blizzard to kill the intruders, before the bears could get close enough to take a bite out of any of the town's 1,500 ... more


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