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**By Cutberto Ibarra**
 * Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to the shore. Their sea journeys leave them them vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia or being swamped by waves. Drownings are becoming widespread across the Arctic. Polar bears live on ice all year round and use it as a platform from which to hunt food and rear their young. They hunt near the edge, where the ice is thinnest, catching seals when they make holes in the ice to breath. They eat one seal every four or five days and a single bear can consume 100lb of blubber at one sitting. A warm climate means more large pieces of ice being melted and causing the sea level to rise causing alot of polar bears to drowned. Climate change effects this living organism dramaticly its possible that if we continue too burn fossil fuels and thicken the Green House Effect causing it to drain more heat from the sun causing the Climate to get warmer we may never see this Organisms any more. (Referring to Penguins as well)**