Sentences with phrase «by polar»

This is «an encouraging sign of sellers» interest, particularly given the adverse conditions brought on by the polar vortex,» says Errol Samuelson, realtor.com ®'s president.

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.

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.

But the companion study, led by the polar scientist Robin Bell of the Lamont - Doherty Observatory suggests that drainage on the Nansen Ice Shelf might help to keep the ice intact, perhaps by draining away the meltwater in the dramatic waterfall the scientists had identified.

Those small swimming snails get eaten by fish, which in turn get eaten by polar bears and seals.

The northeast quarter of the island, known simply as The National Park, is populated only by polar bears, walruses and other Arctic wildlife.

«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.

The trigger is flow in the Peruvian and Californian currents which is modulated by the polar annular modes.

The reply by a polar bear scientist was pretty hand - wavy.

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?).

Newborn pups were left lying on the bare ice, subject to thermoregulatory stress and vulnerable to significantly increased predation by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus).

Unfortunately for the alarmists though, research by polar experts have determined the iceberg calving to be a normal condition, happening with regular frequency.

In the troposphere, the demarcation between polar air and warmer tropical atmosphere is usually defined by the polar front.

That is the temperature trend that is reflected by a fair accounting of UHI and that is not amplified by polar extrapolations.

In the text: «Use of terrestrial resources by polar bears was suggested as adaptive (Dyck et al., 2007, 2008; Dyck and Romberg, 2007; Armstrong et al., 2008; Dyck and Kebreab, 2009; Rockwell and Gormezano, 2009; Smith et al., 2010).»

Longer ice - free seasons increase the risk of nest depredation by polar bears for colonial breeding birds in the Canadian Arctic.

A new paper by polar bear biologists (Rode et al. 2015) argues that terrestrial (land - based) foods are not important to polar bears now and will not be in the future — a conclusion I totally agree with — but they miss the point entirely regarding the importance of this issue.

Thus far, observed consumption of terrestrial food by polar bears has been insufficient to offset lost ice - based hunting opportunities but can have ecological consequences for other species.

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.

Terrestrial predation by polar bears: not just a wild goose chase.

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

Icelandic volcanoes are about 30 degrees away from the pole, too far except for the strongest eruptions, to be swept - up (in suficient enough concentration) into the stratosphere by polar vortex, hence the ozone layer there is more stable, despite fact there was more CFC around in the Nth than Sth hemisphere.

The Pacific state is driven by polar blocking patterns in the north and the south spinning up or not the Californian and Peruvian currents.

Winters are characterized by the polar night, extreme cold, frequent low - level temperature inversions, and stable weather conditions.

Both are driven by polar storms and winds penetrating deep into low latitudes and funneling winds and currents to the cold water upwelling regions of the eastern Pacific.

However, the recovery plan does not tackle the greatest adversary experienced by the polar bears, the rapid decline of sea ice due to the warming climate.

y r fat people so annoying i think they should be eaten by polar bears.

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

Platts natural gas editors Letitia Vasquez and T.L. Hamilton discuss the record high prices reached in natural gas prices brought on by the polar vortex when heating demand was way up.

Virtually all of the evidence generated by polar bear researchers shows that polar bears are not being harmed by declines in summer sea ice, and in some cases, they are doing very well indeed.

How about the poor Narwhals and Belugas that might not get trapped in a small air hole miles from open ocean getting ruthlessly mauled by polar bears.

(09/01/2011) Recent, unprecedented walrus haul - outs and increased instances of long - distance swims by polar bears show the direct impacts on wildlife of dwindling Arctic sea ice from climate change.

Researchers Flee Stranded Bear - Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society had their field research on ecological impacts of eroding Arctic coasts near Prudhoe Bay interrupted by a polar bear that was stuck ashore because the sea ice in that part of Alaska was far offshore.

Even today's well funded research organizations can not do research everywhere and at any time, and therefore any additional systematic information gathered by polar travelers can be highly complementary.

You can get a fresh look at the sea ice by clicking here to check out the North Pole Webcams left behind in April by the polar research team.

The incredibly strong winds created by the polar oscillations and vortices seemed to be the determining factors in last year's hurricane season.

The paper, «Long - distance swimming by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) of the southern Beaufort Sea during years of extensive open water,» is published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology.

All siding with its infinite growth paradigm, so I'm not surprised to see you writing counter-pieces to the harsh truth, which, as it stands, is that we have a pretty much dead and severely warming ocean, daily record - breaking jet - stream related weather incidents, which in turn are caused by polar temperature anomalies of +20 C as of late.

Puppies have been found frozen to death and dogs have been disemboweled and eaten by polar bears.

By the same token, I also recall remarking to myself about how quickly the backlash cycle gets at film festivals these days, as evidenced by my enthusiastic reactions to Moonlight and Jackie being met by polar opposite reactions, either online or in person, maybe a day or two after I had seen them.

The look is exemplified by polar opposites; sumptuous feminine elegance and lavish excesses, distilled to an intimate occasion with exquisite detailing.

Work - place relationships are hindered by these polar opposites as are marriages and friendships.

And that's what we mean by polar motion,» said Surendra Adhikari, a researcher with Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who conducted the work with his colleague Erik Ivins.

This is the first direct evidence of a sustained weather system generated by polar aurorae on any planet, and this is the first time a weather feature in Jupiter's upper atmosphere has been observed away from the planet's bright aurorae.

Antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs), produced by polar fishes, inhibit ice growth...

The common paradigm used to explain the observation of conductivity at interfaces of materials such as lanthanum aluminate and strontium titanate is that electrons move across the interface to alleviate the so - called polar catastrophe created by polar / nonpolar interface creation.

White Rock was not formed by polar processes because it lies near to the equator at latitude -8 degrees and longitude 355 degrees.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Fabric inspired by polar bears keeps this bunny warm»

(This status allowed the Administration to create a special rule exempting greenhouse gas emissions — which are, through global warming, melting the artic sea ice used by the polar bears for hunting — from regulation under the Endangered Species Act.)

By then I was totally caught by the polar bug, meaning that I could no longer resist anything related to Antarctica.