Sentences with phrase «polar bear habitat»

I wondered what the similarity in extent for 2013 and 2009 might tell us about polar bear habitat development over the next month or so.

Detrimental effects include loss of polar bear habitat and increased mobile ice hazards to shipping.

It is pushing for new oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat while biologists for Interior Department, prodded by legal action, recommended the bear be given threatened status under the species act because of the warming of the Arctic and summer retreat of sea ice.

Some argue that, since it is illegal to engage in activities that could harm or kill threatened or endangered species, Americans should be forced to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to preserve polar bear habitat.

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, accused the Bush administration of not going far enough to protect the polar bear, noting that the Interior Department included exemptions to the decision that do not address the reason the sea ice is melting and allowing oil drilling to continue in a major polar bear habitat.

«It seems likely there were still pockets of suitable polar bear habitat available during past warm periods, but the question is whether that will hold for the future.»

Predicting 21st - century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models.

However, according to NSIDC Masie figures, polar bear habitat at mid-May registers about 12 million km2, just as it did in 2006 (although it is distributed a little differently); other data show spring extent has changed little since a major decline occurred in 1989, despite ever - rising CO2 levels.

Are these carbon - hungry «microalgae - powered» street lamps the key to saving polar bear habitat and coastal cities from annihilation?

In a news release, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne stated, «loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat.

It took lawsuits and petitioning efforts by the Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC, Greenpeace, and other organizations to overcome the resistance to this listing, which would have profound implications on how polar bear habitat is used — that is, whether its arctic territory would become territory of oil companies as well.

U.S.G.S. reports forecasting strong declines in polar bear habitat and numbers were keys to that decision.

Nude Bee Honey works with beekeepers from around the world to preserve ecologically important bee hives, while Canada Goose allocates funds from the sale of every parka from its PBI Collection line to support the conservation of polar bear habitats.

Tagged Canadian Ice Service, CIS, Davis Strait, most ice in 25 years, National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC, polar bear, polar bear habitat, polar bear status, sea ice extent, spring sea ice

Tagged Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, polar bear habitat, polar bear movements, polar bears, polar bears in winter, satellite collars, sea ice, Southern Beaufort, tracking polar bears, USGS

And as climate change accelerates, polar bear habitat will be put in ever increasing danger.

The best known consequence of disappearing sea ice in the Arctic is the loss of the polar bear habitat.

«Supporters of the listing want the federal government to declare global warming as the direct cause of harm to polar bear habitat, sea ice, and consider limits on utilities and industry producing greenhouse gasses, not only in Alaska but throughout the country.»