© Reuters / IBTimes Staff ReporterResearchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Aarhus University have warned that polar bear species as primary predators are ailing as industrial pollutants get absorbed in the Arctic Ocean food chain.
Canada lost some 1.2 percent of its water surface or 6700 square kilometers between 2000 to 2009 as revealed in a satellite survey of the 1.3 million lakes stretching from coast to coast, according to the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska,
"It's an important finding. We need to find out what's driving it," says Larry Hinzman, director of the research center.
Previous surveys showed that there had been shrinking Arctic lakes, but only in the southern-most part of the Arctic. But the new survey, carried out by Mark Carroll at the University of Maryland in College Park found that the reverse is happening: it is the northern lakes that appears to be shrinking.
