Sentences with phrase «finds polar bears»

A new study finds polar bears in the wild have higher metabolic rates than previously thought, and as climate change alters their environment a...
You'll only find polar bears in the Arctic, but if penguins are your thing, you'll have to head for Antarctica.
Weber and colleagues found the polar bears had especially low diversity in their MHC genes.
Mr Gore says: «A new scientific study shows that for the first time they are finding polar bears that have actually drowned swimming long distances up to 60 miles to find the ice.
To create my little polar bear, I grabbed some muslin fabric I had leftover from my fabric rosette mistletoe ball and found a polar bear silhouette image on Google.
Are you the type of individual that can easily write a job resume, but when it comes to providing delicate information about yourself, you end up playing the game, find the polar bear in a white snowstorm on your blank piece of paper or computer screen?
Quinoa is a Dutch Shepherd that she trained from a 6 - month - old pup to seek and find polar bear scat.
Readers curious about Al Gore's false statement that a scientific survey had found polar bears drowning because they could not find ice should see my talk on how environmentalists are the real threat to polar bears.

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In the far north, scientists recently found that polar bears were 20 percent scrawnier than they'd been just a few years before.
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.
The lyrics of Laurie's hit tune «Victor Vito» come to life with hilarious illustrations by Henry Cole, as two road - tripping polar bears set out on a cross-country mission to find tasty new foods for their Klondike Cafe.
An ambitious study of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Alaska has found that their overall metabolic rate is 1.6 times greater than thought, says wildlife...
The findings suggest that polar bears may just prove wrong those gloomy predictions about their ability to survive.
A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.
Across all 19 polar bear populations, the researchers found that the total number of ice - covered days declined at the rate of seven to 19 days per decade between 1979 and 2014.
These findings support satellite imagery as a tool for monitoring polar bears on land, which could potentially be applied to other Arctic wildlife.
«Pteropods in Peril» is not the stuff of headlines, nor have Fabry's findings grabbed our attention like the plight of the polar bears.
In the Arctic, high levels of mercury are found in beluga whales, polar bears, seals, fish, eagles and other birds.
The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm.
The researchers found that between 1985 and 1994, 62 % of polar bear dens were built on sea ice — but that number dropped to 37 % between 1998 and 2004.
Modern bears are wide - ranging, found from equatorial to polar regions.
A 2007 study found that polar bears are not threatened in a warming world.
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...
Amstrup adds, «It fills a gap in our otherwise extensive knowledge of polar bear ecology and corroborates previous findings that the key to polar bear conservation is arresting the decline of their sea ice habitat.»
At the same time, the scientists found that polar bears use an unusual physiological response to avoid unsustainable heat loss while swimming in the cold Arctic waters.
They found 73 cases of polar bears attacking groups or individuals, with 63 people injured and 20 killed.
However, Hailer says that the new results broadly tally with his team's findings, which also suggested that polar bears may have evolved much earlier than the 600,000 year mark.
Aided by comparisons with the genomes of brown and black bears, they found that polar bears first emerged as a separate species between 4 and 5 million years ago.
So Sonne's group concludes that human pollution, combined with the difficulty of finding food in warming climates, may spell disaster for Eastern Greenland polar bears.
When he co-wrote a (non-peer reviewed) paper in 2007 arguing that Arctic warming wasn't happening and polar bears were not threatened by the effects of it, we found that ExxonMobil and the billionaire Koch brothers had paid for it.
Diminished sea ice can impact the ability of Arctic species like polar bears and walruses to find food, and could impact the weather across North America, Europe and Asia, though that connection is still contentious.
In the midst of polar bear country, in fact Bear Island (Bjørnøya) on Svalbard, we find Lake Ellasjbear country, in fact Bear Island (Bjørnøya) on Svalbard, we find Lake EllasjBear Island (Bjørnøya) on Svalbard, we find Lake Ellasjøen.
On any given day you might find John Durant running barefoot through Central Park, experimenting with intermittent fasting, or doing a polar bear swim in the Atlantic.
When she's not in the kitchen, you might find her chasing after her Golden Retriever, spending time with her husband, making questionable puns, filling her house up with plants, trying to practice yoga, nerding our over nutrition books and doodling pictures of polar bears onto the backs of her grocery receipts.
I found some cute polar bear bedding @Marshalls last week that I couldn't resist.
Depending on how far north they live, the Inuit find everything from Caribou herds and polar bears to beluga whales.
On this page, you will find worksheet sets that contain the following themes: snowmen, penguins, trees, polar bears, bells, and wreaths.
Puppies have been found frozen to death and dogs have been disemboweled and eaten by polar bears.
I've never liked zoos, preferring to see animals in their natural setting, but polar bears are only found within the Arctic Circle, one of the remotest places on earth.
Her travels have found her trekking through the Andes and Patagonia, photographing polar bears in the Arctic, walking 1400 km across Spain, photographing the wilderness of Iceland and ice climbing in Alaska... always with a camera at hand.
You can swim with beluga whales, see lava, find blue fire, seek wild polar bears on a budget.
This time she's focussed on endangered species so a polar bear, a rhino and shoal of hammerhead sharks may be found in her latest show.
I've seen footage of polar bears swimming and swimming until they drown, no land to be found.
A multiyear study found that polar bears do not enter a state of what is known as walking hibernation in summer months, when food is more scarce.
They also find evidence of possible gene flow in the opposite direction (polar bear DNA into the grizzly population) suggesting different scenarios of who was mating with who.
I found stories about 4 polar bears that drowned in a storm and stories about 2 that were killed by scientists studying them when the scientists tranquilized the bears and the bears made their way back into the water and drowned.
There is published work on polar bears employing alternative foraging strategies (Andy Derocher — yes from the PBI website — is an author of a great one on them hunting caribou), my work supports this possibility (see / / www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/science/05prof.html)-RRB- and the polar bear skull found in Svalbard believed to have existed during the last interglacial further supports this.
The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.
The troubling part is that the low number was surprising to the researchers, who note that not only is it less than they thought they'd find, but it's far less than other large marine predators — even polar bears.
Kind of astonishing to find that statement in a comment that is concerned with the fate of «individual» — polar bears.
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