Polar bears live North of the Arctic Circle and up to the North Pole in the winter. This is where they primarily live on ice caps and hunt seals to store fat for the summer. When the ice caps begin to melt polar bears move to coast lines such as Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland, and Northern islands owned by Norway. On these coast lines there is no source of food for Polar Bears which is why they relay on stored food. However, with shorter winters and longer summers the balance doesn't work, less time for polar bears to store food and longer amounts of time stored food is needed leads to starving polar bears. Polar bears were listed as the first animals endangered because of global warming this is because their habitats are being destroyed by the melting of the ice caps.
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