Polar bears, glaucous gulls most at risk from contaminants

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 15:28 in Earth & Climate

Although animals throughout the Arctic are exposed to an alphabet soup of pollutants and contaminants that are carried north from industrialized countries, only polar bears in East Greenland and Svalbard and glaucous gulls in Svalbard appear to be showing any deleterious effects, according to a new report.

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