Sentences with phrase «of polar bear health»

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The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

They report in the journal Science of the Total Environment that they questioned 13 specialists from four nations to propose ways of measuring polar bear health.

«The health of the Arctic polar bear is being attacked from all fronts, but among many other factors is the exposure to environmental contaminants,» said Maria Jesus Obregon, of the Biomedical Research Institute in Madrid, one of the authors.

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As a physical scientist rather than a biologist, I am generally reluctant to get involved in such topics as the influence of climate on polar - bear population, health and biology.

Once you presuppose that climate change is happening, it doesn't take a leap of faith to incorporate the assumption into models to estimate the health of polar bear populations, the progress of glaciers, and the vulnerability of Arctic sea ice.

During this past summer's rollout of the EPA's historic climate initiative, the president and his allies went to great lengths to reframe the climate change debate around the health of our children and the elderly, as opposed to the fate of the polar bears and the melting ice caps that have long served as the de facto mascots of the climate movement.

Relative to recent years and potential impacts on polar bear health and survival in Canada, there is nothing alarming in the pattern or speed of sea ice breakup for 2017, either over Hudson Bay, the southern Beaufort, or the eastern high Arctic.

Due to hypotheses regards future effects of increasing CO2 on sea ice and polar bear health, CBD argued polar bears were endangered.

Sea ice is absolutely critical to the health of polar bears.

The prediction failures regarding the Arctic polar region being ice - free, and the continuing good health and resilient, growing population of polar bears, just really grates on some science «journalists.»

Research there has shown a direct link between the loss of sea ice and the health of polar bears, including a connection between an earlier spring melting of sea ice and lower survival rates for cubs.

• As far as is known, the record low extent of sea ice in March 2017 had no impact on polar bear health or survival.

Little has been said in the media about climate change and health — usually what we hear about is polar bears, loss of the ice cap, dying species and flood risks.