Sentences with phrase «how polar bear habitat»

It took lawsuits and petitioning efforts by the Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC, Greenpeace, and other organizations to overcome the resistance to this listing, which would have profound implications on how polar bear habitat is used — that is, whether its arctic territory would become territory of oil companies as well.

Not exact matches

With more genomes in hand, researchers are teasing out when and how polar bears came to be so successful in such a harsh habitat.

Even though it is not the main scope of our paper, we described the scientific context of polar bear ecology and explained how and why polar bears depend on their sea ice habitat (summarized in my previous blog post).

Seals, walrus and polar bears are much more flexible and resilent to changes in habitat conditions than most modern biologists give them credit for and consequently, it will be fascinating to see how the ice will change over the coming months and how the animals will respond.

Such information is important for an assessment of how polar bears will be able to cope with the predicted changes of their main habitat: the Arctic sea ice.

It's rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that's exactly what has happened with Nissan's new TV ad for it's all - electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the (seemingly) age - old story about how polar bears are losing their habitat to a melting Arctic as a result of climate change.