Sentences with phrase «polar bears in»

The crackling fire bounces light in the room decorated with abundant greenery and plush polar bears in a bunch.

The Atlantic Fisheries Regulations pursuant to the Fisheries Act go into some depth on the allowable methods of fishing for various types of sharks but there is no mention of the Greenland Shark, it is an unknown, and if this is a creature that eats caribou whole and includes polar bears in its diet, it might be a good idea to set down some regulations on how fishers interact with them.

will the polar bears in their winter dens notice that its -36 instead of -40?

Almost every single ad in the architectural trade press has kids, trees or polar bears in them, one's eyes glaze over completely and don't even notice any more.

A conservation photographer took some amazing shots of a pride of lions with a custom made «BeetleCam,» the very rare pink katydid was spotted in the wild, a Chinese businessman paid $ 80,000 to hunt polar bears in Canada and more.

Although the zoo was the city's most popular tourist attraction, it has received its share of bad press — most notably for its display of polar bears in a city known for scorching summers.

With such a small habitat remaining — which WWF estimates will cover less than 500,000 square miles — the few remaining polar bears in the Last Ice Area will be in close competition with each other for hunting grounds.

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

The USGS simply refuses to acknowledge global warming and lost summer sea ice has NOT produced any catastrophic change for polar bears in the recent past.

The MWP took place in Europe; so are there any polar bears in Europe today?

This is nothing but a political ploy to hold up polar bears in the arctic as a reason to halt production of a new power plant in, say, Texas.

A new power plant in New Mexico could be halted by the courts based on arguements that it will hurt (now «endangered») polar bears in the North Pole!

BTW, come April is a report coming on polar bears in the arctic.

As Naomi Oreskes says in the film, «This climate change stuff isn't just about polar bears in the Arctic.

We'll skip the humans and talk about polar bears in a bit, but let's first talk about the underlying issue: what science means — and how it's actually quite easy to harness your own intelligence to interests that may want to try to confuse you.

Additionally, the blogs often cite authors who do not publish regularly on polar bears in peer - reviewed journals.

«Marked And Steady Increase» In Modern Penguin Abundance Perhaps because of their unique visual appeal and heavy representation in children's books and movies (and climate blogs), penguins may subjectively rank second only to polar bears in their polar popularity.

Regehr, E. V., N. J. Lunn, S. C. Amstrup, and I. Stirling, 2007: Effects of earlier sea ice breakup on survival and population size of polar bears in western Hudson Bay.

A similar but somewhat less devastating phenomenon affected Western Hudson Bay ringed seals and polar bears in 1991, which was a very cold year in Eastern Canada (Chambellant et al. 2012:274).

Most female polar bears in the Beaufort Sea breed for the first time at 5 years of age, compared to 4 years of age in most other populations, and cubs normally remain with their mothers for 2.5 years prior to weaning.

Stirling, I., M. J. Lunn, and J. Iacozza, 1999: Long - term trends in the population ecology of polar bears in Western Hudson Bay in relation to climate change.

We are all aware of the Arctic summer ice cover shrinking, Greenland glaciers breaking up, permafrost melting, and polar bears in trouble.

Analysis of movement data from mark - recapture studies and tracking of adult female bears with satellite radio collars indicated that there are two populations of polar bears in the area, one that inhabits the west coast of Banks Island and Amundsen Gulf and a second that is resident along the mainland coast from about Baillie Islands in Canada to approximately Icy Cape in Alaska.

In a warming arctic scenario, this cosmopolitan species may become the «new» arctic apex predator replacing polar bears in areas with reduced sea ice (Ferguson et al. 2010a).

Mammals and birds utilize sea ice as haul - outs during foraging trips (seals, walrus, and polar bears in the Arctic and seals and penguins in the Antarctic).

«Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number.

The number of polar bears in the world is four to five times greater than it was 50 years ago, increasing from around 5,000 to an estimated 25,000.

Amstrup et al. (2001) found that the SB subpopulation may have reached as many as 2,500 polar bears in the late 1990s.

He added: «It is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media - assisted hysteria.»

However, the fact that polar bears in the Chukchi Sea and Southern Davis Strait are thriving despite dramatic declines in summer sea ice (aka an extended open - water season), proves my point and disproves their premise.

[That said, I was disturbed by the fact that these authors chose to use a diminished version («~ 900») of the 2004 estimate of polar bears in Western Hudson Bay (~ 935, Regher et al. 2007) rather than the 2011 estimate derived from an aerial survey (~ 1000 bears, Stapleton et al. 2014) or the 2011 estimate derived from mark - recapture work (consistent with the ~ 1000 bear estimate due to differences in methods, Lunn et al. 2013).

Diet of female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea of Alaska: evidence for an emerging alternative foraging strategy in response to environmental change.

We characterized the current terrestrial diet of polar bears in western Hudson Bay by evaluating the contents of passively sampled scat and comparing it to a similar study conducted 40 years ago.

We examined individual diet variation of female polar bears in Svalbard, Norway, and related it to year, season (spring and autumn), sampling area and breeding status (solitary, with cubs of the year or yearlings).

USGS polar bear biologist Karyn Rode and colleagues (press release here) have tried to frame this issue as one about future survival of polar bears in the face of declining sea ice.

Demography and population assessment of polar bears in Western Hudson Bay, Canada.

The number and distribution of polar bears in the western Barents Sea.

As part of past status reports, the PBSG has traditionally estimated a range for the total number of polar bears in the circumpolar Arctic.

The new NRC report, among many other findings, continues to chronicle the collapse of the ecosystem for polar bears in the face of climate change.

Comments Off on If experts had been right about sea ice, there would be no polar bears in Churchill

Viewers outside the UK can now watch polar bear scientist Steve Amstrup live (Episode 2, filmed 2 November 2016), state that there are «20,000 - 25,000» polar bears in the world, almost a full year after the IUCN Red List put the worldwide polar bear population size at 22,000 - 31,000.

In the study, Soon dismissed the idea that polar bears in the Canadian Arctic were at risk from the impacts of climate change — and questioned whether the region was even warming at all.

If Amstrup had been right about the relationship of summer sea ice and polar bear numbers, there would have been no polar bears in Churchill for the BBC to film this year.

In fact, Arctic ice growth in the second half of September was rapid and there is now more ice than there was at this date in 2007 and 2012 (when polar bears in those regions considered most at risk did not die off in droves).

We could transport the polar bears in a sailing ship (I'd prefer the term «ark») away from the north pole (where their home as melted away to scraps of floating slush).

Thank gawd for Western schoolteachers or who knows what would become of the world and all of the polar bears in the wild (not those that rained down on NY City streets from man's inhumanity to bear and all other species on Earth).

If the population of polar bears in the wild drops precipitously, scientists may seek help from grizzly bears, which are genetically similar to polar bears but well adapted to survive on an increasingly hot planet.

Long - distance swimming events by adult female polar bears in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi seas

«A number of recent climate change reports even failed to mention polar bears in their discussion of Arctic sea ice decline... Crockford, «Even Al Gore seems to have forgotten to include the plight of polar bears in his newest climate change movie.

I was casting about for an illustration of how this could play out and realized one decent example is the situation of polar bears in a human - warmed world.