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阅读导引 气候变暖给人类和许多动物带来了许多麻烦，下面请大家看看北极冰层减小后对北极熊的惨痛影响吧. 阅读欣赏 Arctic sea ice is usually 1 to 3 meters, or as much as 9 feet thick. It grows during autumn and winter and shrinks in the spring and summer. Scientists have monitored sea ice conditions for about 50 years with the help of satellites. Changes in the past decade have been alarming to climate researchers and oceanographers. Arctic ice helps adjust and control the climate in many other parts of the world. Huge sheets of ice reflect solar radiation, keeping our planet cool. When that ice melts, huge areas of darker, open ocean water absorb the heat instead, warming things up. Although few humans live in the Arctic, the disappearance of this ice cover can have effects far beyond the few residents and the wildlife of this harsh region. Ice cover loss can influence winds and precipitation on other continents, possibly leading to less rain in the western United States and creating more in Europe. That warming is going to spread to the United States, and its going to affect storm systems and storm tracks, the jet stream; thats going to affect crops and all sorts of things. The less ice there is, the more obvious the impact. So, just how much ice is disappearing? Less than 30 years ago, there would still be 7 million square kilometers or 2.5 million square miles of ice left at the end of an Arctic summer. Thats now dropped by almost 40 percent. And we are still losing the ice cover at a rate of 10 percent per decade now. The best known consequence of disappearing sea ice in the Arctic is the loss of the polar bear habitat. The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears, according to Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. They are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the ice melts and global warming transform the Arctic, polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they dont have acc