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The key danger for polar bears posed by the effects of climate change is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss.Polar bears hunt seals from a platform of sea ice. Rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food in the late summer and early fall.
The study was published Thursday, marking the 20th annual International Polar Bear Day, established to raise awareness for Arctic conservation during the season when polar bears are in their dens.
Churchill, Canada — Here on the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers and scientists like Geoff York. Buggies traverse the ...
Fifteen years after polar bears were listed as threatened, a new study says researchers have overcome a roadblock in the Endangered Species Act that prevented the federal government from ...
Taylor has published over 5150 scientific papers on polar-bear-related topics, and he has worked in the field on most of the world's polar bear populations. He was a coauthor of the 2008 Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) Assessment and Update Status Report for polar bears. From 2004 to 2008, he was also manager ...
Except for the brown bear (Ursus arctos) and the American black bear (U. americanus), the other six of bear species are threatened according to the IUCN Red List, including: the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) the polar bear (U. maritimus) the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) the Asiatic black bear (U. thibetanus) the sloth bear ...
This caused polar bears to spend about 130 days on land each year. Scientists predict that in the future, there will be an additional five to ten days without sea ice per decade. Show comments
Susan Janet Crockford is a Canadian zoologist known for her research and publications on polar bears. From 2004 to 2019 she was an adjunct professor in Anthropology at the University of Victoria. [1] Crockford has gained attention for her blog posts on polar bear biology, in which she argues that polar bears are not threatened by climate change ...