Sentences with phrase «bearded seals in»

Each winter bearded seals in the Pacific sector migrate southward as winter ice prevents access to their favored feeding grounds.

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Instructors or students with facial hair (beards, long mustaches, side burns, goatees) or other facial features that interfere with proper SCBA face piece seal are prohibited from participating in live fire evolutions.

The four SEALs - Marcus (Wahlberg), Michael (Kitsch), Danny (Hirsch) and Matt (Foster)- are a likeable bunch, with a nice line in banter and terrific, matching beards, operating under the leadership of Ground Commander Erik Kristensen (Eric Bana - who's not in this much).

Polar bears are the largest land carnivores in the world, but they are also marine mammals, meaning they spend the majority of their time on Artic sea ice hunting for ice - dependent ringed and bearded seals to snack on.

By the time a child born in 2015 retires around 2090, she'll be living in a world with few wild polar bears or Arctic populations of narwhals, bearded seals, and ringed seals.

On the other hand, bearded seals are definitely adapted to survive in ice free waters.

In that decision, the court reported it was troubling that the Beringia population of bearded seals was listed as threatened simply based on threats predicted by climate models that would not manifest until the end of the 21st century.

The loss of thick multi-year ice over the deep Arctic basin in September has no effect on bearded seals survival.

As the BRT reported, bearded seals prefer foraging in open ice cover where the sea floor is less tan 100 meters deep.

Bearded seals are in competition with other benthic (sea floor) feeders, walrus and gray whales, who likewise migrate into the Arctic as the ice melts.

The BRT concluded that «at least in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, bearded seals may not require the presence sea ice for a significant part of the year».

In habitat where sea ice either melts completely or recedes beyond the limits of shallow - water feeding grounds, bearded seals simply come ashore.

Consistent with this analysis, the BRT reports during the spring in the eastern and northern Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and the Laptev Sea, where much of the first - year sea ice is heavily compacted, breeding bearded seals are not found in any significant numbers.

But as seen in other memos and petitions, such as for the bearded seals, the CBD ultimately wants to use the ESA as a tool to regulate CO2.

Up in Alaska, it's so hot now that the traditional hunt for bearded seal last summer was cut abnormally short due to melted ice, causing the Native community there to worry about losing the ability to continue with their traditional ways of acquiring food and practicing their culture.

A family hunting bearded seals instead encounters hundreds of walruses, a rare sight so early in the year.