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Amid climate change, polar bears frolic on ice and forage in Canadian town

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Churchill is the Polar Bear Capital of the world, with some 900 of them massing together while they await the ice to form.

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CHURCHILL, CANADA - With a steady gait, she lumbers towards me. The 250kg polar bear stops barely five steps away and points her snout at me.
Only a 3m-high viewing platform separates me and the apex predator.
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