The mother polar bear is wandering around the Arctic Circle with its two children, probably searching for a delicious dinner for all of them. Snowflakes are falling from the sky, and it seems like these polar bears are enjoying the freezing cold weather. This cheerful polar bear is standing ...
It’s simply thePolitics of Polar Bearson a global scale that has no basis in science: polar bear numbers have not declined as CO2 has risen. Jens Galschiøt’s tasteless and costly message funded by WWF is not much better thanPlane Stupid’s 2009 adof polar bearsfalling from the sky(...
Nora was the first newborn polar bear to live more than a few days at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium since it opened in 1927. Her birth in a concrete den in central Ohio represented all the ways humans and polar bears were inextricably tangled – from the day nearly three decades before ...
Despite falling short of his goal, Nansen’s innovative approach to Arctic exploration laid the foundation for future expeditions to the region. In the years that followed, several other explorers attempted to reach the pole, but it wasn’t until 1909 that American Robert Pe...
may prevent the ice-free period from exceeding 183 days in both western and southern Hudson Bay, providing some optimism for adult polar bear survival. However, with longer ice-free periods already substantially impacting recruitment, extirpation for polar bears in this region may already be ...
The only region with sea ice coverage well below the last five years is the Chukchi Sea (see plots below, click to enlarge).So why aren’t we hearing the-sky-is-falling stories about Chukchi bears?Because biologist have already demonstrated that polar bears in the Chukchi do very welleven...
Sherry had seen polar bears in the wild before, but only from afar. Being so close to the apex predators was awe-inspiring, she said. “We were stopped on the Tundra Buggy, and there were two bears napping. Before I knew it, they were up on their hind legs sparring, and I just re...
Pilot just about leaped right out of the tower. We flew away with one plane and a regular pilot to do our radio collar surveys. The mechanics put another propeller on the plane, and, incredibly, they flew it to town without it falling out of the sky – but it did have a cracked cra...
start of the program, the researchers have braved wind-chill factors of-59℃, hard living conditions, the constant threat of mechanical failures and the danger of being stuck on an ice pack. Last October two government biologists and a pilot disappeared while following polar bears from the air...
“Markus was one of those individuals that fell in love with the bears and highly respected them and dedicated his life to them,” he said. Lemelin said Dyck told him two weeks ago that he was heading out for field work. “He was working for Nunavut and working with incorporating...