Climate change is adversely affecting the amount of Arctic ice, a.k.a polar bear hunting grounds, forcing the bears, which can be as large as 1,700 pounds, on to the land to look for other food ...

But if those ice-free months extend, it could mean a harder time for the bears to hunt. Obviously an extinction ... is needed ...

From the shape of its body, it seemed to be a large male ... this bear was starving because of climate change, but I do know that polar bears rely on a platform of sea ice from which to hunt.