Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the ... we’d shined a light on climate change ...

so it’s impossible to say that polar bears are generally struggling because of climate change, Rode said. “There has been no study that I know of that said more bears starve specifically as a ...

As sea ice diminishes, polar bear feeding grounds decline, meaning the wild predators may seek out food elsewhere -- like human garbage dumps. Mashable Light ... the climate continues to change ...