Russian Invasion|Russian Reactions
Seals are usually the bears' preferred food, but in the summers, when the animals' foraging is followed via a camera on each individual, they eat geese and bird eggs, among other things.
Russia on Wanted: This is just the beginning
Russia's calls for ministers in the Baltic states are based on the countries' decisions to remove monuments from the Soviet era. This is what Maria Zacharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, writes on Telegram.
"This is just the beginning," she writes according to The Guardian.
One of those wanted is Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, who has demanded that all communist monuments in the country be removed.
"The actions of the Russian Federation are not surprising, this is their usual intimidation tactic," Kallas writes in a statement according to AFP.
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The oppression of minorities in China
Report points out how China's Uyghurs are forced to work
The government of China's Xinjiang region is still subjecting people from the Uyghur Muslim minority to forced labor, and in 2023 it increased in scope, according to an as-yet-unpublished report seen by Politico.
The report comes from the US-based China researcher Adrian Zenz and, just like before, there are alarms that Uyghurs are imprisoned in "re-education camps".
The forced labor is said to have taken a more difficult-to-detect form, where Uyghurs who have been in camps are systematically moved to a kind of industrial park with severely limited opportunities to return home. Forced labor is linked to, among other things, the cotton, agricultural and car industries.
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The climate threat|Global challenges
Study: Canada's polar bears are losing an alarming amount of weight
The number of polar bears in Canada's Hudson Bay may have halved since the 1980s. That's what the New York Times writes in a report about how researchers followed 20 bears to get answers to how the animals adapt to an increasingly long period on land.
The study gave an expected but still depressing answer, according to the researchers. It showed that the bears could get enough energy to compensate for the hunt for food, but not enough for them to manage to maintain their weight. Two of the animals were on the verge of starvation when the ice returned to the area.
As a result of climate change, the ice-free period in the western parts of Hudson Bay has been extended by three weeks since the 1970s, the newspaper writes.
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