Sentences with phrase «life of a polar bear»

This new visual tool allows scientists to see and learn what bears are actually doing, and over time will accurately document the true life of a polar bear.

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Forging deeper into the house, one sees a continuing variety of mounted trophies — goats, sheep, polar bears and whatnot — and, indeed, when the Days weary of one particular animal's presence, they can go into a living - room closet and choose a substitute head to their liking, including the remains of a homegrown buffalo that died of old age.

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.

Wallach and colleagues gathered research on the life cycles of more than a hundred species of mammalian carnivores — from polar bears and panthers to skunks and stoats — and documented examples of large predators that apparently regulate their own numbers.

The baculum, a bone in the penis of polar bears, is losing density in areas where pollutant contamination is high — and that may spoil the bears» sex life

Background If you were an animal with a thick layer of fat under your skin and a heavy coat of fur, such as a polar bear, would you live in a tropical forest?

Background Mammals that have evolved to live in cold waters, such as whales, seals, sea lions and polar bears, commonly have a layer of blubber.

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.

Some species win, others don't Meanwhile, the loss of sea ice is making life harder for some marine animals, including polar bears and walruses, that rely on sea ice to hunt, breed and rear their young.

Since polar bears have evolved to live in the extreme conditions of the Arctic, even minor climate changes could profoundly impact the species.

Locally, declining sea ice is affecting the feeding and migration patterns of polar bears, whales, walrus and seals, and the people who live in the Arctic and rely on seasonal ice for their livelihoods.

Season One opens in the aftermath of a plane crash on a deserted tropical island where (we come to discover) a polar bear lives, a rumbling monster crashes through the jungle, a distress signal emanates from the hills, and person or persons unknown continue to keep their presence hidden... for the time being.

Students could also use the information learned to develop a «Day in the Life» of a polar bear ~ pretending to be a polar bear and describing a typical day ~ using 4 specific facts learned from the webquest.

They also included the extra lives you can get from jumping on the baby polar bear in the warp room of Crash 2.

The incredibly detailed paintings include landmark scenes from his life including him tranquilizing a polar bear, fishing shirtless, riding a horse shirtless, discovering two ancient Greek amphorae in the Black Sea, practicing martial arts, writing a book about martial arts, co-piloting a firefighting plane to drop water on a raging forest fire, and painting his series of oil paintings.

AND, models are pretty consistent that by the latter part of this century we will be living in a climate very different from that in which polar bears (and humans) have flourished.

And yet, declaring polar bears endangered would have great effects that would help push the country off our coal and oil addiction, probably saving thousands of human lives per year in the US alone.

The continuing warming and summertime retreats of sea ice around the North Pole are making life difficult for seal - hunting polar bears, eroding Inuit coastal villages and now, evidently, eroding Arctic defenses (although not weakening them, the Pentagon insists).

Perhaps many too many leaders of the global political economy are spurning the moral obligations, responsibilities and duties associated with their stations in life by turning a blind eye to the gigantic scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen precipitating the extirpation of species like the polar bear, the reckless dissipation of non-renewable natural resources and the drastic degradation of the environs of our planetary home.

Scientists believe that the brown bear lineage split over 300,000 years ago to form the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), theorizing that a group of early brown bears became isolated in colder regions and ultimately adapted to life on ice.

Although in the end, it may be that recommendations for polar bear refugia may overshadow the distributions of other resources, I think that moving ahead with strong recommendations, without at least considering the distributions of other competing resources (and, by the way the concerns of local people who may live in the areas), is a bit like getting the cart ahead of the horse.

Between one - sixth and one - fifth of the world's polar bears live on the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.

Imagine being that polar bear, having endured a life - threatening swim created by ever - distant ice floes created by our global warming, only to finally find a nice big chunk of ice where he could finally go fishing, only to confront and be murdered by enemy no. 1: mankind, in this case Icelanders.

As one who has devoted his life to polar bears, however, what makes it most painful for me to watch is that I know this kind of event is happening at increasing rates out there.

Increasing loss of Arctic sea ice is cutting back the platform of life on which all polar bears rely for successful feeding and breeding.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

It struck me as totally insane since according to historical accounts of Canada polar bears used to regularly live in the Gulf of St Lawrence and in southern Manitoba.

Under the new plan, native people living in Alaska will now adjust the number of polar bears they hunt depending on the rise and fall of the animal's population.

Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was filled with misrepresentations about the amount of ice the poor polar bears have to live on, doctored photos.

By the time a child born in 2015 retires around 2090, she'll be living in a world with few wild polar bears or Arctic populations of narwhals, bearded seals, and ringed seals.

Of course, all this fuss about how low the September minimum gets is irrelevant to polar bears: they are either on land or in the Arctic Basin, and virtually all are living off stored fat no matter where they are (see Arctic Basin bear here).

The implication of such research is that study of shorter - lived, tinier creatures may provide more information about adaptation and loss in the rapidly warming Arctic than, for instance, study of seals and polar bears.

«Drilling and associated industrial activity would put polar bears, caribou, migratory birds and hundreds of other species that live on the coastal plain at incredible risk, while also threatening the livelihood of the native Gwich «in people, whose culture and way of life depends on these resources,» she continued.

This «education» takes many forms: from blatant propaganda, like the UK government's  # 6 million «drowning puppy» ad campaign, the Obama administration's recent Climate Assessment Report and the one released by a group of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously.of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously.of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously.Of Living Dangerously...

«During aerial surveys in September 1987 — 2003, a total of 315 live polar bears were observed with 12 (3.8 %) animals in open water, defined for purposes of this analysis as marine waters > 2 km north of the Alaska Beaufort Sea coastline or associated barrier islands.

On the Shelagh Fogarty show on BBC Five Live today, Andrew Montford debated Greenpeace's John Sauven about the death of a single polar bear.

You [and many more] really think you've found the holy grail with this one don't you BilB, the rational to tax and command every human for the original sin of living on the planet, especially all those neo fascist luddite racist sexist misogynist bodgy capitalists who do all those things and give you all that stuff only to expect payment for it when the government should take it and give them to you free; you can finally bring the commanding heights of the world's industry and agriculture and lifestyle under the infallible control of an inter government body and everyone who is permitted will be in his permitted place doing his permitted thing and all will be as it should be and the planet will be safe for the polar bears and the spirogyra.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

While it is true that some ringed seals give birth in stable shorefast ice close to shore, many others give birth well offshore in thick pack ice — where polar bears also live and hunt in the spring but where few Arctic scientists ever venture — and the existence of pack ice breeding ringed seals is one of the reasons that polar bears are such a resilient species.

Maybe if I was a polar bear I;d think different... but there are only ~ 25,000 of them living in a very narrow ecorange.

The reason I have become so obsessed with «global warming» in the last few years is not because I'm particularly interested in the «how many drowning polar bears can dance on the head of a pin» non-argument which hysterical sites like RealClimate and bloggers like Joe Romm are striving so desperately to keep on a life support machine.

The findings echo research previously done on polar bears who live on the western shores of the Hudson Bay.

As they live further south than any other population of polar bears, the group is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Species that already live on the tops of mountains or in the Polar Regions (such as the polar bear) will be unable to migrate upward or poleward into cooler habitats and so risk extinction.

Researchers looked at a population of about 950 polar bears who live along the northern coast of Ontario, stretching from James Bay to the provincial border with Manitoba.

It fails to mention however that due to improvements in technology, more people can explore Arctic temperatures, where polar bears almost exclusively live, thus increasing the likelihood of attacks.

In short, we don't know what will happen since it has not happened before within living memory; the opinions of polar bear specialists must be taken with a grain of salt because so many of their previous assumptions have turned out to be wrong (Crockford 2017a, b, 2018), see here, here, and here.

People who live here have a pretty good grasp of what that is like to have too many polar bears around.

when you've forgotten about when polar bears used to roam the arctic, don't worry kid, i've got tons of pictures of how they lived — all housed in a datacentre in that building over there....