Sentences with phrase «of the polar bear as»

Others accused Interior of delaying its listing of the polar bear as an endangered species until after business deals had been done in Alaska.

Felicity Barringer, who's been covering the recent listing of the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, has written a news article on the offshore sightings.

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 also contracted with the State of Alaska to provide justification of the State's opposition to the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.

This paper attempted to cast doubt on the sensitivity of polar bears in Western Hudson Bay to climate change, a basis of the eventual US Fish and Wildlife listing of the polar bear as «threatened».

[On Wednesday, the Fish and Wildlife Service filed a memorandum in federal court defending the 2008 listing of polar bears as threatened, not endangered.]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska will sue to challenge the recent listing of polar bears as a threatened species, Gov. Sarah Palin announced Wednesday.

The recent listing of polar bears as «endangered» was based on junk science and GIGO computer models that claim manmade global warming will send the bears» record population numbers into oblivion.

These declining PBSG estimates also went viral, and websites such as the one run by psychologist John Cook, who is now part of the well - funded Center for Climate Change Communication, posted an article concluding, «Current analysis of subpopulations where data is sufficient clearly shows that those subpopulations are mainly in decline» and thus support the ESA listing of polar bears as threatened.

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In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007).

It uses diverging reporting about the faith of the polar bear as an example to describe the difference in methodology between science communicators and those trying to spread misinformation, illustrating a split between «climate denier blogs» and science - accurate websites, when such internet media talk about the same topic.

When the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon.

Not exact matches

While perhaps lacking the variety boasted by some big - city zoos to the south, it's well - known for an impressive collection of Arctic animals, such as polar bears, snow leopards, wolves, seals, otters and more.

Desperate for some kind - any kind - of retail store in which to spend their money up in the frozen, polar - bear - infested land known as «Canada,» shoppers flocked to recently opened Target stores across the country, giving the U.S. retailer 86 million of their «loonies.»

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

If all I had to eat for dinner was our salad course, I would have been as happy as a polar bear in a bucket of ice cubes.

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.

The other Republicans and I opposed this proposal, as we felt that adding another $ 7 million in debt to the $ 3 million to which we had already agreed for the zoo's polar bear exhibit was not in the best interests of county taxpayers.

You may have heard about pizzlies and grolars, the offspring of grizzlies and polar bears, but other species, such as the sun bear and Asiatic black bear, also hybridize in the wild.

The polar bear, also known as the white bear, northern bear, sea bear, or nanuq in some Inuit languages, is a species of bear that is native to the Arctic and the apex predator within its range.

As Gore shows with a litany of statistics, maps, and charts — not to mention the film's stark images of drowning polar bears, crumbling ice caps, a Katrina - lashed New Orleans, and drunken trees sliding sideways on melting permafrost — global warming is really happening.

POLAR BEAR VLOGS Wild female polar bears wore collars with a video camera and other instruments for a little over a week as the bears roamed sea ice off the coast of Alaska during spPOLAR BEAR VLOGS Wild female polar bears wore collars with a video camera and other instruments for a little over a week as the bears roamed sea ice off the coast of Alaska during sppolar bears wore collars with a video camera and other instruments for a little over a week as the bears roamed sea ice off the coast of Alaska during spring.

The case of this one polar bear and the failure of her offspring to survive in the new environmental conditions of the Arctic doesn't bode well for the future of the species, especially as Arctic sea ice continues to retreat at a record pace.

The Interior Department lists the polar bear as a «threatened» species — one at risk of becoming endangered — due to dangerous declines in their sea ice habitat

He approached groups of musk oxen dressed as a caribou... and as a polar bear * to see if the animals would ignore him, flee or charge.

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated global warming.

By calibrating what scientists call the molecular clock — the hypothesis that mutation occurs at a predictable rate — to the panda separation 12 million years ago, one group of researchers suggests the polar bear's appearance as a species is a relatively recent phenomenon.

When my daughter was young, I tried explaining evolution to her by using polar bears as an example of a «transitional species» between land mammals and marine mammals, but that was wrong.

By analyzing the genomes of 28 bears — polar bears, including a roughly 120,000 - year - old specimen from Norway's Svalbard archipelago, as well as modern brown bears and black bears — the scientists in effect read back in time to a common ancestor at least four million years ago.

But it could leave the polar bear at risk from an influx of infections as global temperatures rise.

Fox accompanies a team of NASA scientists as they drive a refurbished orange Humvee across a frozen channel in the Canadian High Arctic, facing melting sea ice, mechanical breakdown, and the threat of marauding polar bears.

If adaptation for survival in the Arctic environment has led to a less versatile immune system, then Arctic species such as the polar bear may be at risk from an influx of pathogens as global temperatures rise, the researchers warn.

They concluded that, based on a median value across all scenarios, there's a high probability of a 30 percent decline in the global population of polar bears over the next three to four decades, which supports listing the species as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

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.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, some polar bears are already starving as a result of changing conditions in the Arctic.

«For example, in some parts of the Arctic, such as the Chukchi Sea, polar bears appear healthy, fat and reproducing well — this may be because this area is very ecologically productive, so you can lose some ice before seeing negative effects on bears.

Wild card: McCain and Palin sat on opposite sides of the ice floe when it came to deciding whether the polar bear should be listed as an endangered species earlier this year.

The ESA «can't make connections between greenhouse gas emissions and the polar bear's status as an endangered species,» Dale Hall, director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, said at the press conference.

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 people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

In May the U.S. Department of the Interior classified polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Furthermore, we assumed above that all neurons of one type behave in the same way in all normal brains, just as all polar bears hunt seals under normal circumstances.

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.

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.

(As we discovered at a convention of climate change skeptics, polar bears are a flash point for those who oppose the regulation of carbon emissions, as wellAs we discovered at a convention of climate change skeptics, polar bears are a flash point for those who oppose the regulation of carbon emissions, as wellas well.)

As climate change causes sea ice to shrink, the number of «problem» polar bears appears to be increasing.

Just a few weeks ago, the polar bear was identified as a «threatened» species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Stirling's team found that around the town of Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay — the «polar bear capital of the world» — the number of bears reported as attacking humans, homes and hunting camps more than tripled between 1970...