Sentences with phrase «ice seals»

These majestic ice seals use their claws to create breathing holes in ice that can be up to two meters thick.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

«The Arctic is home to vibrant communities of indigenous peoples, provides vital marine habitats for iconic wildlife such as beluga whales, walruses, and ice seals found nowhere else in the United States, and plays a critical role in global climate systems,» the letter said.

Dr. Duignan's current research focuses are on the impact of climate change on ice - associated marine mammals, such as ice seals and narwhal, in the eastern Canadian Arctic, the epidemiology of morbillivirus infection in pinnipeds and cetaceans globally, dermatitis in dolphins and pathology of marine mammals in California.

Ice seals use the sea ice platform to give birth and nurse pups during very specific weeks of the spring, and polar bears use sea ice for feeding, starting in late winter and continuing until the ice breaks up.»

As ocean and atmospheric temperatures rise, the gray whales - and other Arctic dwellers like the walrus, polar bear, ice seal and Arctic fox — are making their way in an unknown warming world.

... On a hard winters day the coal would freeze in the hoppers and the hauling tractor would be used to break the ice seal.

Its coasts provide refuge for Pacific walruses and ice seals and designated critical habitat for threatened polar bears.

Offshore there is habitat for Pacific walruses, ice seals and polar bears.

Ice seals, one of the primary diets of polar bears, give birth in snow caves dug in sea ice during late springs.

Polar bears can go on months without eating but needs to replenish its lost nutrients during the ice seals birthing season.

A team of scientists led by the U.S. Geological Survey found that polar bears, increasingly forced on shore due to sea ice loss, may be eating terrestrial foods including berries, birds and eggs, but any nutritional gains are limited to a few individuals and likely can not compensate for lost opportunities to consume their traditional, lipid - rich prey — ice seals.

She said polar bears are adaptable to use land for hunting, and though their preferred food, ice seals, may be declining, bears are adapting to alternative food sources.»