Report predicts Hudson Bay polar bears could disappear in a few decades

Julienne Stroeve, the report's lead author, said with more than two degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels, both the southern and western populations of the Hudson Bay polar bear will become extirpated. That means they'd be extinct locally. 

Report predicts Hudson Bay polar bears could disappear in a few decades
A mother polar bear and her cub sit on the snow.

Julienne Stroeve, the report's lead author, said with more than two degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels, both the southern and western populations of the Hudson Bay polar bear will become extirpated. That means they'd be extinct locally.