Flooding at home, not polar bears, convinces people of man made climate change

Pictures of polar bears on melting ice caps make little difference to climate campaigns because people do not care about global warming until it happens on their doorstep, a survey has found. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent 21 Mar 2011 Nick Pidgeon, Professor of Environmental Psychology at Cardiff University, showed for the first time that […]

Melting sea ice forces polar bear to swim for nine days

By Rob HastingsWednesday, 26 January 2011 In a remarkable feat of endurance, a polar bear has been tracked swimming for nine days continuously in a desperate bid to reach new ice floes, covering 426 miles in the process. The bears are excellent swimmers and are known to travel long distances in search of seals. But […]

Polar bears in remote north have high levels of toxic pollutants

By Elizabeth Haggarty, Toronto StarDec 10 2010 With its pristine-looking, snow-covered flats and mirror-like oceans that come with frigid temperatures and limited human exposure, the Arctic looks as clean as it could get, but it’s not — nature’s northern refuge is toxic. In fact, the 2500 polar bears that roam Norway’s remote Svalbard have some […]

Arctic’s vanishing sea ice presents polar bear with a new danger – grizzlies

Fears for future of gene pool as interbreeding between vulnerable species driven together by global warming gathers pace By Steve Connor, Science EditorThursday, 16 December 2010 The rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic is encouraging the formation of hybrids between related species which could accelerate the decline of some of the region’s most […]

Dramatic decline in sea ice imperils Western Hudson Bay polar bears – Bears went without eating this year for 3 weeks longer than usual

By Aislinn Maestas12-07-2010 The polar bears of Western Hudson Bay went without eating this year for approximately 3 weeks longer than usual. According to the National Wildlife Federation, the combined early summer break-up of sea ice and delayed winter freeze-up foreshadows what is likely to be a fast-approaching and grim future for these polar bears. […]

New video of starving polar bear cubs shows cost of global warming

Warning: This video includes disturbing footage of a malnourished polar bear mother and her two cubs in western Hudson Bay, Canada. Some may choose not to watch, because it includes graphic scenes of a malnourished cub experiencing seizures. Both cubs died within two days of the November 23, 2010, filming. As difficult as the images […]

The polar bear’s last stand

A final refuge of Arctic summer sea ice may be the last outpost for polar bears.     By Jessica Marshall    Thu Dec 16, 2010 04:05 PM ET As sea ice disappears, a refuge of suitable habitat for polar bears and ringed seals — key polar bear prey — may persist in northeastern Canada and northern […]

NOAA Video: ‘The Arctic is continuing to move into a new and different climate state’

Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely Record temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and links to some Northern Hemisphere weather support this conclusion. Arctic Report Card: Update for 2010 Technorati Tags: Arctic,global warming,climate change,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption,sea ice,deglaciation,glacier,fish decline,mammal decline,polar bear

Photo gallery: Arctic sea ice decline, Summer 2010

According to the The National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), satellite data taken from September this year indicates that Arctic sea ice is continuing a long-term decline. The report, published this week, shows how sea ice coverage was recorded at a summer low of 1.84 million square miles, indicating a continuing trend of decreasing […]

Graph of the Day: Status of Polar Bear Populations, March 2010

29 August 2010 (PBSG) – A status table was first discussed and published at the 11th meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) in Copenhagen in 1993. The present table was discussed and concluded upon in Copenhagen in 2009, and some small updates on the comments was done in March 2010. Summary of polar […]

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