Sentences with phrase «polar bear attacks»

«The paper also focuses much attention on the potential for increases in polar bear attacks on humans due to sea ice loss (blamed on global warming) but ignores totally the increased risk stemming from the larger proportion of adult males that now exist in protected populations.»

Over the 150 years, polar bear attacks averaged eight or nine per decade, Atwood says, but from 2010 to 2014 alone there were 15.

«But in the last 35 years, only 3 people have died from polar bear attacks.

He's endured black clouds of mosquitoes in the Siberian permafrost zone and prepared for polar bear attacks in the northernmost reaches of the Canadian Arctic.

He's endured clouds of mosquitoes in the Siberian permafrost and prepared for polar bear attacks in the Canadian Arctic.

They found 73 cases of polar bears attacking groups or individuals, with 63 people injured and 20 killed.

It rears its head in the opening sequence, which sees a photographer (Michael Gambon) come across a polar bear attacking a man.

That's why my new polar bear attack thriller EATEN is set in early spring, in a year when seals happen to be scarce.

Tagged book review, InsideClimateNews, Labrador, Meltdown, polar bear attack, Shankman, Torngat Mountains

-- DQ Lindsay Abrams — Salon — November 22, 2014 When polar bears attack: How climate change is creating a new breed of unlikely killers As the ice caps melt, -LSB-...]

I imagined a terrifying catastrophe for polar bears and rightly called it fiction (a polar bear attack thriller — EATEN).

In 2015, she wrote her first novel, a polar bear attack thriller aimed at readers who prefer their science «lite.»

Not exact matches

Stirling's team found that around the town of Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay — the «polar bear capital of the world» — the number of bears reported as attacking humans, homes and hunting camps more than tripled between 1970...

Is it just too deep a gulf to cross to care for sharks the way we appear to care for, say, polar bears, even though they are much more likely to attack a person as a meal?

A photograph of a polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying attacks on climate research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.

«The health of the Arctic polar bear is being attacked from all fronts, but among many other factors is the exposure to environmental contaminants,» said Maria Jesus Obregon, of the Biomedical Research Institute in Madrid, one of the authors.

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Imagine if dozens of truly ravenous polar bears stalk and ambush people across a great frozen landscape, taking them by complete surprise because no one considers a bear attack in spring to be a real possibility.

But their popularity has attracted the attention of global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry, who have started to attack polar bear science.

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As one person commented below the article, famous explorer Roald Amundsen was attacked by a polar bear (back in the days when explorers drove SUV's, remember?).

It fails to mention however that due to improvements in technology, more people can explore Arctic temperatures, where polar bears almost exclusively live, thus increasing the likelihood of attacks.

The report, entitled «Polar bears hurt by climate change are more likely to turn to a new food source — humans,» cited a new study claiming that «the higher global temperatures go, the researchers said, the more likely polar bears are to interact with humans — and possibly attack and eat them.»

«By attempting to generate information that could be assessed with statistical methods, the authors ended up with data that is so skewed and incomplete that it fails to provide a plausible assessment of the risk to humans of attacks by polar bears,» she wrote.

It has, they haven't because the polar bear biology was wrong is an example of the type of attack I think most effective.

But this scene proves polar bears will even attack and eat their own kind, even if it's a defenceless cub.

Wilder presents these numbers as a basis for saying how concerned he is that a longer open - water season in the Arctic could increase the number of attacks by polar bears — and he's right, that's a valid concern now that the global population of bears is so high.

Elizabeth - Anne Gumbel QC and Henry Witcomb represent the family in the inquest into the death of Horatio Chapple who was attacked by a polar bear.