Sentences with phrase «says polar researcher»

And ``... Polar bears were fat, many looked like pigs», says polar researcher at the Norwegian Polar Institute, Jon Aars to the High North News.

Not exact matches

The most striking result, researchers said, is the consistent trend across all polar bear regions for an earlier spring ice melt and a later fall freeze - up.

«This study shows declining sea ice for all subpopulations of polar bears,» said co-author Harry Stern, a researcher with the UW's Polar Science Center.

«I don't consider myself a polar researcher or a space researcher, but rather an instrument maker,» he says.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

«I'm amazed how many people say «polar ice caps» — it's totally unscientific and not, not something we ever talk about as researchers!»

This difference, the researchers say, suggests that tropical species may be more vulnerable to rising ocean temperatures than are temperate or polar species.

And that's what we mean by polar motion,» said Surendra Adhikari, a researcher with Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who conducted the work with his colleague Erik Ivins.

In both the past two winters, researchers saw polar stratospheric clouds over parts of Britain, said Jonathan Shanklin of the British Antarctic Survey.

From polar areas to equatorial waters, the whales ingested pollutants that may have been produced by humans thousands of miles away, the researchers said.

The report, entitled «Polar bears hurt by climate change are more likely to turn to a new food source — humans,» cited a new study claiming that «the higher global temperatures go, the researchers said, the more likely polar bears are to interact with humans — and possibly attack and eat them.»

Warming ocean currents could eat into polar ice - sheets from beneath, increasing the rate at which they flow into the sea, say researchers in a paper out in Nature Geoscience today.