Sentences with phrase «polar bears face»

Last year Arctic ice melted make so many polar bears faced die situation.

They've also tried to test the greenhouse value of the Endangered Species Act by asserting that wildlife including several sea turtle species and, of course, polar bears faced extinction through global warming.

Not exact matches

Among the new faces to be found on Calgary pins will be Hidy and Howdy, the Games» polar bear mascots, and the OlympiKids, the Hanna - Barbera cartoon creations being marketed by the USOC.

«All polar bears across the Arctic face shorter sea ice season.»

Fox accompanies a team of NASA scientists as they drive a refurbished orange Humvee across a frozen channel in the Canadian High Arctic, facing melting sea ice, mechanical breakdown, and the threat of marauding polar bears.

For example, polar bears swim in the Arctic Ocean where they face negative temperatures whereas other bears live in warm, southern California.

Lindqvist says that the analysis reveals that polar bear DNA has lost diversity as populations have dwindled, drifted apart and become genetically isolated, suggesting today's bears have less resilience to the environmental change, habitat loss, pollution and diseases they now face.

The Arctic Ocean's sea ice and waters are habitat for many imperiled species, from polar bears to bowhead whales — and they all face the threat of dirty fossil - fuel development.

Next up, Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana put on their game faces for Maya Forbes «curiously named «Infinitely Polar Bear,» which as far as we can tell is neither infinite nor features polar bears.

Finally, pupils are asked to think about the problems polar bears are facing and to contemplate the bigger picture concerning global warming.

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Wish you could stand face to face with a polar bear?

Nothing else except for maybe a few stated possible tragedies (i.e., the polar bears are moving south and the penguins face possible extinction) there are no concrete ideas for people to grab onto!

The established icons of Arctic climate change are the polar bear and, to a lesser extent, those indigenous communities that are trying to maintain traditional ways in the face of slushy floes and the relentless erosion of coasts exposed to waves as sea ice retreats.

While the plight of the polar bear may be famous, there are countless people across the globe — whole nations, in fact — facing the irreversible loss of their homelands if emissions do not peak by 2015.

Coincidentally, newly published research on changing dietary habits of polar bears around the southern shores of Canada's Hudson Bay reveals the species» adaptability in the face of shifting climate patterns.

From the Archives, Oct. 2, 2009 The established icons of Arctic climate change are the polar bear and, to a lesser extent, those indigenous communities that are trying to maintain traditional ways in the face of slushy floes and the relentless erosion of coasts exposed to waves as sea ice retreats.

This emphasizes the fact that the primary problem faced by Southern Beaufort sea polar bears is not scarce summer ice but by thick sea ice conditions in the spring.

The new recovery plan was made to address the human - induced threats being faced by the polar bears.

«By working with Coca - Cola, we can raise the profile of polar bears and what they're facing, and most importantly, engage people to work with us, to help protect their home.»

The new NRC report, among many other findings, continues to chronicle the collapse of the ecosystem for polar bears in the face of climate change.

Many, many people associated climate change with the notion that polar bears might become extinct as their Arctic habitat disappeared in the face of future climate changes.

More: Scientist whose climate change research on polar bears was cited by Al Gore will face lie detector test over «integrity issues»

And once you get down to the hardcore enforcers of the Clime Syndicate down at the sharp end of that 97 per cent there's an awful lot of polar bear - faced lying.

USGS polar bear biologist Karyn Rode and colleagues (press release here) have tried to frame this issue as one about future survival of polar bears in the face of declining sea ice.

Warming - induced loss of sea ice remains the primary threat faced by polar bears.

Abstract Increased land use by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) due to climate - change - induced reduction of their sea - ice habitat illustrates the impact of climate change on species distributions and the difficulty of conserving a large, highly specialized carnivore in the face of this global threat.

If there is an iconic image that communicates the desperation wildlife faces when pitted against the magnitudinous force of global warming, it is the lone polar bear stuck on a melting ice flow.

Who could not form the impression that fat people were more responsible than the rest of us for the demise of the polar bear, if they took the magazine at face value?

While the Gulf oil spill has led to a momentary moratorium on offshore drilling in the US, we are sure to face a time when offshore drilling again becomes viable... including in lands where polar bears roam.

The letters were submitted to the Department of the Interior as the agency faces a court - imposed deadline next week on whether polar bears, which are acutely imperiled by global warming, should continue to be classified merely as «threatened» or given maximum protection as «endangered.»

Pictures of stranded polar bears perched on crumbling ice floes, seemingly all - at - sea in the face of global warming, inevitably grab the attention.

Try to nail down the alarmists on what they mean by «existential threat» «greatest threat faced by mankind» «death trains» «dead polar bears falling from the sky» yatta..

Forget about polar bears — these communities are the new face of climate change.