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Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 โ€” and the entire population gone from Alaska โ€” because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday. Polar bears have walked the planet for at least 40,000ย years.

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