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Polar bears weakened by pollution as well as warmth

2015-04-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: Greenlands polar bears have a thyroid problem. Their endocrine systems, too, are being disrupted. In both cases the culprit agency is environmental pollution by a range of long-lived industrial chemicals and pesticides. Kristin Mller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland...

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