Sentences with phrase «polar bear research»

Many do care, however, including, as we have seen, New Scientist, who chose to make Willie Soon's alleged links to the oil industry the focal point of its coverage of his polar bear research last year.

Davies said Soon's polar bear research goes to the heart of how the industry employs research like Soon's to deflect attention from the true cause of global warming.

In a phone interview last week, Scott Schliebe, who just retired from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service after decades of polar bear research, agreed with this assessment.

Update: The University of Alberta says that the «stop work» notice received on 13 July in relation to US government funding for a polar bear research project was lifted on 1 August.

Not exact matches

When alarmists charged that the polar bear was being hunted to extinction, the outcry sent scientists like Lee Miller and Jack Lentfer (below) off across the ice on a rewarding research trail

The study «paints a realistic picture of how complicated the management of Arctic species will be going forward,» adds Mike Runge, a research ecologist and polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Mresearch ecologist and polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, MResearch Center in Laurel, Maryland.

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.

Some earlier research suggested that polar bears could, at least partially, compensate for longer summer food deprivation by entering a state of lowered activity and reduced metabolic rate similar to winter hibernation — a so - called «walking hibernation.»

A young polar bear stands on pack ice over deep waters in the Arctic Ocean in October 2009, during a major research project headed by the University of Wyoming.

The team hopes future research will clarify the impacts of grizzly bear aggression on the polar bear population.

The 18 July suspension of government researcher Charles Monnett, originally thought to have been triggered by questions about his 2006 study of drowned polar bears (see background), actually relates to Monnett's management of $ 50 million in research contracts.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

Earlier this year, Frank Hailer of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, and colleagues estimated that polar bears diverged from brown bears 600,000 years ago — a result that itself pushed back the evolutionary record of polar bears by about 450,000 years (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1216424).

As a case in point, the research on Knut led to the discovery that a herpesvirus of zebras is able to kill polar bears as documented in the Wuppertal Zoo, infecting Knut's father Lars, who survived the infection, and his partner, Jerka, who died from the infection.

Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson present their project nanoq — a research - driven practice exploring the provenance of taxidermic polar bears in the United Kingdom.

Despite decades of helicopter surveys, field research and the increasing use of satellite - monitored tags and the like, much of what polar bears do in the Arctic remains out of sight and unmonitored.

A photograph of a polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying attacks on climate research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.

The trends on other sources of stress for polar bears seem to be in encouraging directions, with Russia introducing more control on hunting (illegal and legal) and research on potentially harmful industrial chemicals showing declines.

Bytingsvik's research is part of a larger international project to assess the condition of polar bears in the Arctic called BearHealth.

This raises all kinds of research questions, including whether polar bears are changing diets to cope with the warming seasons?

Coincidentally, newly published research on changing dietary habits of polar bears around the southern shores of Canada's Hudson Bay reveals the species» adaptability in the face of shifting climate patterns.

Could it be that Soon knew in 2003 of research that indicated that warming was having an effect on polar bears in Churchill?

Researchers Flee Stranded Bear - Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society had their field research on ecological impacts of eroding Arctic coasts near Prudhoe Bay interrupted by a polar bear that was stuck ashore because the sea ice in that part of Alaska was far offshBear - Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society had their field research on ecological impacts of eroding Arctic coasts near Prudhoe Bay interrupted by a polar bear that was stuck ashore because the sea ice in that part of Alaska was far offshbear that was stuck ashore because the sea ice in that part of Alaska was far offshore.

Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants in plasma samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears» thyroid systems.

«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.

Kert Davies, the research director for Greenpeace U.S.A., one of three environmental groups that sued the Interior Department in 2005 to force it to add polar bears to the list of threatened species, said the administration was «clearly scrambling for credibility of any kind in this issue.»

A striking 80 percent of the climate - denying blogs that were analyzed relied on one blog in particular written by Susan Crockford — a source that the authors said «had neither conducted any original research nor published any articles in the peer - reviewed literature on polar bears.»

«There is little doubt that polar bears are very susceptible as global climate change continues to drastically alter the landscape of the northern polar regions,» said Robert Rockwell, a research associate in the Museum's Department of Ornithology.

Taken together, the research indicates that during the ice - free period, polar bears are exhibiting flexible foraging behavior.

• Polar Bear Junk Science — In a 2007 published «junk science» article on polar bears and Arctic climate impacts, the author acknowledged receiving research funding from ExxonMobil, American Petroleum Institute and the Charles G. Koch foundation.

This multi-member research team used a new data set (mostly Scandinavian brown bears and Greenland polar bears, for a change) to add not much of anything new on the evolutionary insight front except yet another estimate of when polar bears came to be.1

As if polar bears don't have enough problems, not only are they suffering due to climate change - related sea ice loss, but now new research indicates that pollution is giving them brain damage.

In a polite but misleading article today in a BBC magazine (The polar bears are coming to town) about the relationship of polar bears and Inuit in Arviat, Western Hudson Bay, there is no mention of the on - going feud between Nunavut Inuit and Canadian polar bear scientists regarding invasive research.

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.

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Despite Center for Biological Diversity assertions that «Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears», research shows polar bear populations have continued to thrive and increase.

More: Scientist whose climate change research on polar bears was cited by Al Gore will face lie detector test over «integrity issues»

Research on polar bears at Norwegian Polar Institute.

In that article you will find The research project «Populations and sources of recruitment in polar bears» has been suspended which Monnett was the «Contracting Officer's Representative».

«This is the first record of this species as polar bear prey,» wrote the authors of a study that was published in the Polar Research Journal.

It is unknown whether the ecosystem will return to the pattern of decadal - scale change exhibited in previous decades, or how polar bears and seals will respond to ecological changes in the future, but research on these topics is a high priority.

Based on such studies Dr. Derocher, chairman of the IUCN's Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) warned, «It's clear from the research that's been done by myself and colleagues around the world that we're projecting that, by the middle of this century, two - thirds of the polar bears will be gone from their current populations».

For example despite his research showing cycles of heavy spring ice had been most detrimental to seals and bears, Stirling and Derocher's review of polar bear «science» used the very same research to falsely imply that less summer ice was the problem.

In the eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, research on polar bear populations and their ecological interrelationships with seals and sea ice conditions began in the fall of 1970.

Crockford acknowledges that she has never done any field research on polar bears.

In contrast to such storytelling, the unpublished research data from Stirling and Lunn, determined polar bear's Body Condition Index for Hudson Bay bears had been improving since 1998 (in Landscapes and Cycles, p. 217).

She told Motherboard that her lack of peer - reviewed research on polar bears is irrelevant.

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).

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

Fortunately, a new study by David Legates, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research, throws cold water on the claim global warming threatens polar bears survival.