Warming climate pushes polar bears to extinction
Polar bears may become nearly extinct by the end of the century as a result of global warming causing sea ice to shrink in the Arctic. Researchers found that if ...
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Warmer climate stresses polar bears
Polar bears that have been tracked for decades in Western Hudson Bay have increased stress levels in years with the warming climate, a new study shows. This ...
TWS says seeking comment on ANWR study ‘politicizes science’
The Wildlife Society is criticizing a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to seek public comment on a study from one of its journals on oil exploration ...
Less Baffin Bay sea ice means skinny bears, fewer cubs
Decreasing sea ice cover related to climate change is leading to thinner polar bears and smaller cub litters on Canada’s Baffin Island. “This adds to a growing ...
JWM: Delaying seismic surveying better for polar bear dens
Oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s North Slope would disturb fewer maternal denning polar bear mothers if start times are delayed during bear maternal denning ...
Study questions effectiveness of polar bear detection tool
A tool that oil companies use to try to avoid harming or disturbing polar bears (Ursus maritimus) may not detect the bears in their dens as well as they were ...
The February issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management
The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading ...
Birds prey on bears’ leftover goose egg scraps
Polar bears and grizzlies in the Arctic are scaring snow geese from their nests to consume their eggs, leaving a clear path for gulls and ravens to prey on their ...
Study finds polar bears aren’t so wasteful when walking
With declines in sea ice that polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the arctic require to subsist, researchers have seen accounts of bears traveling farther north. But ...
Does media presence create false sense of species’ success?
The images of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes’ Tony the Tiger, Cheetos’ Chester Cheetah and Toys R Us’ Geoffrey the Giraffe surround us all the time. But how does ...