Sentences with phrase «affects polar bear populations»

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«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

This is a hands - on investigative STEM focusing on issues of climate change and how it affects the polar caps, and subsequently the polar bear population.

Any impact on the populations of tiny crustaceans will affect other creatures higher up the food chain — cod, seals and polar bears — which need fat sources in their diet.

In news that may be shocking to ClimateDepot, polar bear population is affected by non-climatological factors such as regulations on polar bear hunting, just like India's population is affected non-AIDS factors such as vaccination programs.

If that occurs, the premature removal of protection offered by subnivean birth lairs may expose young ringed seal pups to high levels of predation, which may negatively affect populations of ringed seals and the polar bears that depend on them for food.

Besides shrinking sea ice there are currently also other factors that negatively affect polar bears, such as human settlements, industrial activities, hunting, bio-accumulation of toxins, and smaller seal populations.