As temperatures keep rising, polar bears face a bleak future ahead, say scientists. ... The loss of sea ice affects polar bears' ability to find food, studies show. ... Scientists don't have enough data in the remaining nine populations to say ... A paper detailing the conservation status of polar bears, the data fromThe Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the global average, causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away. Loss of sea ice also threatens the bear's main prey, seals, which need the ice to raise their young.
