Sentences with phrase «shrinking polar ice»

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

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Species targeted include the polar bear, already under threat due to climate change: Shrinking sea ice makes it harder for the animals to hunt seals, their main food source.

If the polar cod population in the Barents Sea actually does shrink, the juvenile fish under the ice of the Eastern Arctic could become even more important — especially in order to make up for losses elsewhere.

The U.S. Department of the Interior Wednesday listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 based on evidence that the animal's sea ice habitat is shrinking and is likely to continue to do so over the next several decades.

They then used the satellite record of Arctic sea ice extent to calculate the rates of sea ice loss and then projected those rates into the future, to estimate how much more the sea ice cover may shrink in approximately three polar bear generations, or 35 years.

As climate change causes sea ice to shrink, the number of «problem» polar bears appears to be increasing.

* The late - summer polar ice cap, already at historic lows today, would shrink only another quarter and hold steady by century's end, instead of melting by more than three - quarters with no let - up in sight.

Because Kaktovik's polar bears seem especially susceptible to the Arctic's shrinking sea ice, researchers are concerned they may start relying more heavily on nutrient - poor food from land.

Since the Artics» sea - ice cover is shrinking due to global warming, the polar region takes up more heat.

A comprehensive review (pdf) by the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that shrinking sea ice is the primary cause for the decline seen in these populations, and it recently proposed listing polar bears as threatened (pdf) under the Endangered Species Act.

Polar species, including the polar bear, ice - dependent seals, and emperor penguins are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change as their unique sea ice habitats shrink due to warming.

Antarctic sea ice is growing, while Arctic ice shrank by 10 percent since the first measurements of polar ice from satellites in 1979.

For Hannes Jaenicke, tough - guy actor and animal welfare campaigner, polar bears are more than a symbol of global warming and shrinking Arctic ice.

Reading Robert Pondiscio's recent article («The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform») calls to mind Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and its powerful image of a polar bear drifting helplessly on a shrinking sheet of ice in a warming sea.

Burko accompanied climatologists to the Arctic Svalbard as well as Greenland's Ilulissat Glacier to document the shrinking of polar ice over time.

Steven C. Amstrup, the federal biologist who led an analysis last year concluding that the world's polar bear population could shrink two thirds by 2050 under moderate projections for retreating summer sea ice, is once again in the field along Alaska's Arctic coast, studying this year's brood of cubs, yearlings and mothers.

Here are some possible choices — in order of increasing sophistication: * All (or most) scientists agree (the principal Gore argument) * The 20th century is the warmest in 1000 years (the «hockeystick» argument) * Glaciers are melting, sea ice is shrinking, polar bears are in danger, etc * Correlation — both CO2 and temperature are increasing * Sea levels are rising * Models using both natural and human forcing accurately reproduce the detailed behavior of 20th century global temperature * Modeled and observed PATTERNS of temperature trends («fingerprints») of the past 30 years agree

Over all, open water has spread in the Arctic this summer nearly as much as it did last summer, when polar experts said the ice cap shrank far more than had been measured since satellites started scanning the region 30 years ago — and probably more than it had shrunk in a century or more.

Glaceirs shrink, polar ice are melting, sea level is rising, coastal areas are erosion.

Three years after environmental groups sued to force the Interior Department to consider protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming Arctic.

Even if greenhouse gas emissions were completely stopped today, most of the world's glaciers would still disappear or dwindle to remnants by the end of this century, just from the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere, while the polar ice caps will likely keep shrinking for centuries to come.

Determining whether polar ice sheets are shrinking or growing, and what their contribution to changes in sea level is, has motivated polar scientists for decades.

Scott Schliebe, a federal biologist and the polar bear project leader for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the basic connection between shrinking ice and greater distress for the bears was well established.

Changes in polar and glacial ice Satellite measurements shown a trend in overall shrinking of Earth's ice sheets Impacts: Rising.

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So the north polar sea ice has been steadily thinning in depth and shrinking in area for more than 30 years.

First, shrinking land ice, such as mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets, is releasing water into the oceans.

Hot topic: The plight of polar bears captures the hearts of many, but are the ice caps still shrinking?

As the Arctic ice cap shrinks during the coming decades, the chemistry of the polar troposphere should also change.

Even though some polar bears are hunting on land more often in areas hit by shrinking Arctic sea ice, a diet of bird eggs and berries can't sustain these huge animals, a new study finds.

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

Among Hayden's assertions were that: «Yes, the polar ice caps are shrinking... on Mars.»

Accompanying his paper (below) was a photo - shopped picture of a polar bear stranded on a shrinking piece of ice.

According to the report, polar ice caps are melting, water supplies around the world are shrinking, [continue reading...]

The score on PC1 shows a separation between on the one hand the position that Arctic sea ice extent is shrinking and that this poses a threat to polar bears (most scientific articles and science - based blogs) and on the other side the position that Arctic sea ice is not shrinking or that it's due to natural variability and that polar bears are not threatened (pseudo-skeptical blogs).

Six scientific papers arguing that polar bears may be able to adapt to shrinking sea ice by hunting on land clustered in a third area.

Besides shrinking sea ice there are currently also other factors that negatively affect polar bears, such as human settlements, industrial activities, hunting, bio-accumulation of toxins, and smaller seal populations.

Most scientific articles as well as science - based blogs assess Arctic sea ice extent to be shrinking and polar bears to be threatened as a result, and most denier blogs take a contrary view on both sea ice and polar bears.

Although arctic experts said there were many signs of warming, including a thinning and shrinking of the polar ice cap, there was no way to link a patch of sun - dappled water at the pole to climate change.

What is striking though, is that amidst all the criticism nobody has challenged our core finding: blogs on which man - made climate change and its impacts are downplayed are far removed from the scientific literature, at least regarding the topic of shrinking Arctic sea ice and the resulting future threat to polar bears.

By far the worst culprit, though, in perpetuating alarmist myths is the BBC which has just produced this emotive video claiming that a «3 million year ice age is coming to an end» making it harder for polar bears to find food on the shrinking ice.

Some bad news for migrating seabirds: shrinking Arctic ice has left polar bears scrambling to find food, and they've taken to eggs in a big way.

The evocative imagery of a young boy with a laptop in front a rug depicting a lone polar bear on a ever shrinking ice floe has prompted various reactions...

The polar bear just can't seem to lose its headline - grabbing «poster child» image - this week the Incredible Shrinking Polar Bear was added to the portfolio alongside Drowning Polar Bear, and Bear Stranded on the Ice Floe.

Climate Change: As a result of climate change, glaciers are melting faster; the polar ice caps are shrinking; trees are blooming earlier; more people are dying in heat waves; species are migrating, and eventually many will become extinct.

A trio of despondent mammals — a monkey, a polar bear and a kangaroo — living in hellish landscapes of deforestation, drought and shrinking ice caps.