Sentences with phrase «ice habitats shrink»

Polar species, including the polar bear, ice - dependent seals, and emperor penguins are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change as their unique sea ice habitats shrink due to warming.

As their ice habitat shrinks, skinnier and hungrier bears face a grave challenge to their survival.»

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These bears hunt the fat - rich seals that feed and breed around ice, and as seal habitat shrinks, so do the bears» prospects.

Six groups of seals threatened by shrinking sea ice are gaining protections, as their habitats are forecast to shrink significantly due to global warming

The U.S. Department of the Interior Wednesday listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 based on evidence that the animal's sea ice habitat is shrinking and is likely to continue to do so over the next several decades.

Their habitat and food supply are shifting as a result of warmer waters and shrinking sea ice.

«Prior to the last Ice Age, there was a clear distinction in the isotope values for all three species; after this period, there is a clear overlap — and this suggests that the habitat of deer species had shrunk or there was and overlap in the diets of the different deer species,» says Dorothée Drucker from the Biogeology department, who examined the collagen.

I shouldn't have to point out the satellite photos of Arctic Ice and how it has shrunk [nasa.gov], or how Polar Bears are in real danger of extinction because of the loss of their frozen habitat.

But shrinking Antarctic sea ice is destroying their habitat.