Sentences with phrase «ice habitat melts»

This is devastating news for polar bears, who are suffering as their sea - ice habitat melts from under their paws.

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To build a picture of the habitat as it crept out of the Ice Age, Willerslev's team analysed DNA in cores taken from beneath two lakes in what was the last stretch of the corridor to melt.

However they are losing habitat as the Arctic ice melts, so may be forced to move and breed with brown bears, wiping them out.

An international «Red List» of threatened species says that the polar bear is vulnerable to extinction because of a projected decline in its habitat linked to climate change that is melting sea ice in the Arctic.

The rule in question was finalized by the Bush administration in December, six months after the polar bear was declared a threatened species due to the melting of its sea - ice habitat.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

Documented declines in sea ice and anticipation of massive melting that threatens the bears» habitat prompted the action.

As the ice in the bear's Arctic habitat melts due to global warming, many of these furry beasts will drown or starve to death.

The population looks set to fall again as melting pack ice forces polar bears back to the land - based habitats of brown bears, where interbreeding has recently been observed.

Even if you ignore all the temperature meauserments which you seem to vehimently deny there is still many other sources of evidence associated with this increase such as — ice melt / extreme weather events / sea current changes / habitat changes / CO2 / ice cores / sediment cores.

Often photographed clinging to Arctic ice floes as its habitat melts away into warming waters, the polar bear is the poster child for U.S. efforts to save wildlife on the brink of extinction using the Endangered Species Act.

Sea ice is critical for polar marine ecosystems in at least two important ways: (1) it provides a habitat for photosynthetic algae and nursery ground for invertebrates and fish during times when the water column does not support phytoplankton growth; and (2) as the ice melts, releasing organisms into the surface water [3], a shallow mixed layer forms which fosters large ice - edge blooms important to the overall productivity of polar seas.

Second, the polar bear's sea - ice habitat has dramatically melted in recent decades.

Much of the Bearded Seal's habitat encompasses seasonal ice zones where first - year sea ice is renewed every winter but melts completely every summer.

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

It may also mean more habitat for dark microbes, which can contribute to the darkening of the ice sheets and therefore to the melting.

To the long list of predicted consequences of global warming — stronger storms, methane release, habitat changes, ice - sheet melting, rising seas, stronger El Niños, killer heat waves — we must now add abrupt, catastrophic coolings.

We'll end with this one, that's perhaps the most obvious to understand: if a sea - ice habitat completely melts away, the survival of all the species that are dependent on this sea ice, directly or indirectly, is threatened.

Krill are on the front lines of climate change — melting sea ice is destroying their habitat, and ocean acidification could further harm them.

The thinning and melting of the Arctic ice affects the climate and weather patterns, as well as alter the food and habitat of living things that are dependent on the ice.

As the ice melts and Arctic temperatures warm, polar bears are forced to find new habitat (usually farther south, where the humans also live in greater numbers).

Indeed, working with predictions for future temperature increases and glacier melt rates generated by ten separate global climate models — all of which are also used by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change - the team have concluded that these smaller ice sources will contribute around 12 centimetres to world sea - level increases over the remainder of the century, with this likely to have catastrophic consequences for numerous natural habitats as well as for hundreds of thousands of people.