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Warming leads to more run-ins with polar bears
2014-12-19 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: 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 residents. Clashes between bears and people so far south of the Arctic were unheard of a century ago....
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