Will ringed seals and polar bears go extinct? Ring seals are polar bear's main food source. Polar bears and ringed seals are becoming endangered because of climate change.
Climate change is caused by warmer temperatures in Earth's atmosphere. Parts of the Arctic are melting! Seals, polar bears, and many more Arctic animals need the ice to survive. The atmosphere is trapping heat which is called greenhouse gasses. People make these types of gases by burning fossil fuels which are coal, oil, and natural gas. Ice and snow are important to arctic animals in many ways. For example, "lairs" are an adaptation that ringed seals use to build a shelter for their pups. The ringed seals need at least eight inches of snow to build their lairs, but with the warming world they can't build their lairs. Ringed seals may need to travel farther north to snowier and colder areas to build their lairs. Ringed seals may have to learn how to raise and shelter their pups on land. Seals eat arctic cod and these types of fish are dying out because the ocean plants that cod feed on to survive are killed as the ice melts.
To help these animals you and your family can cut down on how much fossil fuels you use.You can help by using clean energy which is a way to have power without harming the environment. You can also use wind turbines to provide power. There can be a few problems with the wind turbines. The problems are that they are huge and take up a lot of land that means that they're forcing animals out of their habitats.Scientists have built wind turbines in oceans to avoid hurting the habitats of plants and animals on land.
Another thing you can do to help earths plants and animals,is solar panels on your house. The energy from the sun light will turn into electronic power which is clean energy.
Another thing you can do to help earths plants and animals,is solar panels on your house. The energy from the sun light will turn into electronic power which is clean energy.
Resources used: "Science Spin: Life Without Ice?" December 2014
Written and typed by: Kasey Boettger and Charlotte Bohnenberger
Edited by: Emerson Fraser and Miss.Martin
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