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"Since then hunting became regulated everywhere, and by 1981 the group estimated that the midpoint of the number of polar bears had increased to almost 23,000. The group estimated the number of polar bears again in 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, and again in 2015 — which they in 2019 said was the relevant number for “now.”
The amazing, if the untold, story is that the midpoint estimate has never been as high as today. The global number of polar bears stands between 22,000 and 31,000, or a midpoint of 26,500.
The simple fact is that polar bears are not going extinct. They are not becoming fewer and fewer. Since society started counting them in the 1960s, polar bears have never been more abundant."
A new study warns that polar bears could become nearly extinct by the end of the century if we don’t enact strict climate policies. However, it relies on an exceptionally unlikely climate scenario, where stagnating global coal use will suddenly balloon sixfold over the century. The lead...
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