Polar Bear Expert: ‘The annual minimum reached in late summer has little impact on polar bear health and survival. What matters most to polar bears is the presence of ample ice in spring and early summer (March-June), which is their critical feeding period’
What polar bear habitat could look like in another 5-6 weeks http://polarbearscience.com/2013/09/22/what-polar-bear-habitat-could-look-like-in-another-5-6-weeks/ According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC, Sept. 20 report), the annual sea ice minimum extent was reached on Sept. 13, 2013. At 5.10 million square kilometers, this year’s low was a whopping 1.69 million square kilometers above the minimum […]
Greenpeace protests Arctic drilling as polar bears flourish
‘It seems like everything is at an all-time high except the temperature’
New Peer-Reviewed Study: Polar Bear Population Growing Despite Declining Sea Ice
So, now we have at least two reports in the peer-reviewed literature that state flat out that the presumed negative effects of declining sea ice on a population’s size are indistinguishable from a population that is as large as it can get. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Rather than being proven victims of Arctic sea ice in […]