Sentences with phrase «on polar environments»

Researchers still need icebreaking capability to study global warming's effects on polar environments — and climate change will sharpen this need well beyond scientific missions.

Leading Antarctic marine biologist James McClintock gives us an unprecedented first - person account of the dramatic impacts of climate change on the polar environment and its wildlife

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

Not exact matches

Earthly life has proved remarkably hardy in similar extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and polar ice.

As the official Belgian Antarctic Operator, the Foundation ensures safe conditions for field research, provides cargo and personnel logistics, experienced polar guides, field accommodation and mobile laboratory facilities, and guarantees minimal impact on the Antarctic environment.

Articles on issues and prospects, ocean governance, living resources of the ocean, non-living ocean resources, transportation and communications, environment and coastal management, maritime security, military activities, regional developments, training and education, and ocean polar issues will be considered for Volume 33.

The program will include 65 sessions across 12 categories, including the session «Observing with autonomous vehicles in polar regions,» which focuses on topics such as scientific results from self - operating platforms and technological capabilities that assist research efforts in the polar environment.

One looking at the environments, one looking at the adaption of polar bears and penguims to the environments and another looking at the human impact on the environment.

Svalbard is also a great place to visit during the Summer months when the focus is on the amazing wildlife (walrus, whales, polar bears, birds, etc) and the environment.

His photos are on display aboard the Star of India, and captures whales, pinnipeds and polar bears in their natural environment.

Without action on the environment, two - thirds of these gorgeous giants could be lost by 2050; by 2100 polar bears could become extinct.

And as a rapidly warming Arctic encourages more ship traffic through Canada's Northwest Passage and along other polar routes, the sooty emissions from passing freighters will significantly accelerate climate change in the region, according to a new Canadian - American study that, for the first time, predicts the potential impact of engine exhaust particles on the Arctic environment.

We have to rely on accounts from unionized government scientists who get paid to study the polar environment.

For some years now we have been exposed to mournful photographs of polar bears floating away on ice floes, or otherwise appearing endangered... The theory on which polar bears are supposed to be endangered because their environment is becoming more benign has never been entirely clear, nor has there been data to support the claim that their populations are declining.

The changes in the sea ice environment, and their consequent effects on polar bears, are demonstrable in parallel fluctuations in the mean ages of polar bears killed each year by Inuit hunters.

Reuters Environment reports on a polar bear study led by Eric Regehr and its findings which were presented by co-author Kristin Laidre at a panel discussion during the America Geophysical Union's 2016 Fall Meeting.

The study included seabirds, seals and polar bears in the assessment as they live in a marine environment and feed mostly on sealife.

We addressed questions on the vulnerability of sea urchin larvae to changes in ocean conditions in species from a range of environments (intertidal / subtidal) and latitudes (tropical to polar).

Then there's the local ecosystem — fish, whales, seals, and, yes, polar bears — that relies on a balanced environment at the poles to survive.