Along with the oceans, the Arctic is the region of the Earth most beaten by climate change and where temperatures rise the most. Its most emblematic inhabitants, the polar bears, have recently been pushed into cannibalism due to factors such as the appearance of industrial companies that want to exploit the area's natural resources and the thaw caused by global warming.
All these heartbreaking developments in their habitat have forced these mammals to move out of their normal hunting areas by increased human activity in the Arctic and moving to areas with limited resources. The increase in food shortages is likely the result of climate change, which has decreased ice levels in the Arctic by 40% in the past 25 years, according to the Daily Mail.
In times of abundance, polar bears hunt seals that swim in arctic waters, but without ice they are forced to flock to shore, where resources are scarce. Until recently, their preferred area is one that stretches from the Gulf of Ob to the Barents Sea, but busy ship routes carrying liquefied natural gas are the reason that forces them to move away.
As the fossil fuel industry continues its momentum into areas that civilization has not previously reached, polar bears are nearing extinction, along with more species whose survival depends on rapidly melting ice sheets in the Arctic area, a natural habitat that we have stolen from our greed and eagerness to put sterile economic development before the needs of nature itself.
LAURA DANIELA PEDRAZA URDAPILLETA
VALERIA CORONA MURILLO
ALEJANDRA Ruiz Tapia
