A photographer has revealed to the world just how scary climate change can be by capturing unsettling photos of emaciated polar bears in the Arctic region.
Kerstin Langenberger was on a recent shoot in Svalbard, north of mainland Norway, when she noticed something very unusual – a really skinny polar bear. She explained that because female polar bears gave birth on land, where climate change has increasingly reduced the ice coverage, they cannot find food that easily which eventually makes them weaker and weaker, reports the weather.com.
However, Steven Armstrup, chief scientist at Polar Bears International, added that there could be other reasons for the animal to look so weak. "We know that animals in the wild don't live forever," he says, according to Live Science. "Polar bears, they don't have natural enemies, so when they die it's of starvation
