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Polar bears in Canada s Western Hudson Bay mdash; on the southern edge of the Arctic mdash; are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time. Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay mdash; home to Churchill, the town called the Polar Bear Capital of the World mdash; by air in 2021 and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last surveyed. The actual decline is a lot larger than I would have expected, said Andrew Derocher, a biology professor at the University of Alberta who has studied Hudson Bay polar bears for nearly four decades. Derocher was not involved in the study. Since the 1980s, the number of bears in the region has fallen by nearly 50%, the authors found. The ice essential to their survival is disappearing. Polar bears rely on Arctic sea ice stanley cup mdash; frozen ocean water mdash; that shrinks in the summer with warmer temperatures and forms again in the long winter. They use it to hunt, perching near holes in the thick ice to s stanley cup pot seals, their favorite food, coming up for air. But as t stanley cup he Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the world because of climate change, sea ice is cracking earlier in the year and taking longer to freeze in the fall. That has left many polar bears that live across the Arctic with less ice on which to live, hunt and reproduce.Polar bears are not on Kddn Prince cremated before private memorial service
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police in West Virginia say a homeless man has been charged in a machete attack on another homeless man, who was then thrown into a frigid river. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the attack occurred Sunday morning in the Kanawha City section of Charleston. Charlest yeezy on police Lt air max . Steve Cooper says 23-year-old Brandon Thompson of Charleston was charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding. Cooper says 19-year-old victim Brandon Robinson hasnrsquo;t been located and could be dead. A police diver search was suspended due to cold temperatures. Cooper says witnesses reported Thompson allegedly repeatedly hit Robinson with a machete, stomped on his head, then dragged him and threw him in the Kanawha River. The alleged incident happened outside of a tent on the riverbank, the Gazette-Mail reported.Police said the men were acquaintances. Thompson was taken to the South Charleston Regional Jail to await arraignment. Jail records didnrsquo;t indicate whether he has an attorney. More from CBS News Maui surfer loses part of leg in shark attack, officials say stanley cup Deer hunter mauled to death by bear in Alaska, troopers