Still, little things like “going and grabbing a bite to eat, I feel it here,” Shem Tov said, clutching his throat. “It’s choking me that I know what they are going through. Maybe they don’t have food.”
The sun rises over the tundra, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)The sun rises over the tundra, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
It’s not just polar bears.University of Washington’s Laidre said some scientists think the smallest water zooplankton called copepods are the most important animals in the Arctic. They’re fat heavy and the staple of bowhead whales.But copepods live on the smaller plant plankton that’s changing. The timing of when copepods can prosper is changing and new species are moving in, “and they are not as lipid rich,” Laidre said.
“It’s not that nothing lives out there,” York says while gazing on the Bay. “It’s that the things that are living in the North are changing and looking a lot more like the South.”What’s happening in the Hudson Bay is a preview of what will hit further north, Stroeve said.
An ice scientist, Stroeve says there is just something about polar bears that is so special.
“It really just makes you so happy to see them, to see an animal living in such a harsh environment,” Stroeve said. “And somehow they have survived. And are we going to make it so that they can’t survive? That makes me sad.’'after a nearly three-month Israeli blockade barring all food and supplies from Gaza. Israel has let in a trickle of aid this month for the United Nations to distribute through its networks — nearly 1,000 trucks the past 12 days, the military says, far below the rate even at the highest times during the war when several hundred trucks a day would enter.
Israel says GHF will eventually take over all food distribution, despite opposition from the U.N. and most humanitarian groups.In its first week of operations, GHF’s three distribution sites have been plagued by turmoil.
Palestinians carry boxes and bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Palestinians carry boxes and bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)