Arctic Scientist Who Exposed Climate Threat to Polar Bear Is Suspended

in Animal News on August 12, 2011

It was seen as one of the most distressing effects of climate change ever recorded: polar bears dying of exhaustion after being stranded between melting patches of Arctic sea ice. But now the government scientist who first warned of the threat to polar bears in a warming Arctic has been suspended and his work put under official investigation for possible scientific misconduct.

Link: The Guardian (U.K.)

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