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Last month of Arctic spring fails to bring sea ice to its knees, even in...
Polar bear habitat for June — the last month of spring in the Arctic — is still within 2 standard deviations of the long-term average despite sea ice experts’ predictions that catastrophic declines...
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New data show Svalbard polar bears are fatter than they were in 1993 despite...
Researchers at the Norwegian Polar Institute have finally updated their spring data, which show male polar bears in 2024 were even fatter than they were in 1993 and litter sizes of new cubs were just...
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Polar bear sea ice habitat near the end of Arctic spring 2023
Arctic sea ice is beginning to melt and the end of spring is drawing near. Mating season is over for polar bears as is the gorging on young seals in most regions as weaned pups head into open water to...
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More fat polar bear sightings around homes on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula
Two recent incidents really remind me of the opening scene in my polar bear attack thriller, EATEN, and this time both were captured on film. They involved bears in good physical condition and...
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Spring polynyas in the Arctic then and now as feeding areas for hungry polar...
Patches of open water in the Arctic that develop in the spring, including polynyas and widening shore leads, are largely due to the actions of wind and currents on mobile pack ice rather than ice...
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Polar bear problems onshore in Svalbard before prime feeding season
At the end of March there were two polar bear incidents on the same day in Svalbard, where one bear trashed a holiday cabin. Think a door or a window can keep out a polar bear? Think again! Here is...
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Polar bear sea ice habitat near the end of Arctic spring 2023
Arctic sea ice is beginning to melt and the end of spring is drawing near. Mating season is over for polar bears as is the gorging on young seals in most regions as weaned pups head into open water to...
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More fat polar bear sightings around homes on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula
Two recent incidents really remind me of the opening scene in my polar bear attack thriller, EATEN, and this time both were captured on film. They involved bears in good physical condition and...
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Spring polynyas in the Arctic then and now as feeding areas for hungry polar...
Patches of open water in the Arctic that develop in the spring, including polynyas and widening shore leads, are largely due to the actions of wind and currents on mobile pack ice rather than ice...
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Polar bear problems onshore in Svalbard before prime feeding season
At the end of March there were two polar bear incidents on the same day in Svalbard, where one bear trashed a holiday cabin. Think a door or a window can keep out a polar bear? Think again! Here is...
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More fat polar bear sightings around homes on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula
Two recent incidents really remind me of the opening scene in my polar bear attack thriller, EATEN, and this time both were captured on film. They involved bears in good physical condition and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring polynyas in the Arctic then and now as feeding areas for hungry polar...
Patches of open water in the Arctic that develop in the spring, including polynyas and widening shore leads, are largely due to the actions of wind and currents on mobile pack ice rather than ice...
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Polar bear problems onshore in Svalbard before prime feeding season
At the end of March there were two polar bear incidents on the same day in Svalbard, where one bear trashed a holiday cabin. Think a door or a window can keep out a polar bear? Think again! Here is...
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10 fallacies about Arctic sea ice & polar bear survival refute misleading...
This updated blog post of mine from last year is as pertinent now as it was then: it’s a fully-referenced rebuttal to the misleading ‘facts’ so often presented this time of year to support the notion...
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Spring feeding season almost over for polar bears & sea ice becomes less...
Here are ice conditions at the end of May, which signals the near-end of the critical spring feeding period for polar bears. This is because young-of-the-year seals take to the water to feed...
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10 fallacies about Arctic sea ice & polar bear survival: teachers & parents...
Summer sea ice loss is finally ramping up: first year is disappearing, as it has done every year since ice came to the Arctic millions of years ago. But critical misconceptions, fallacies, and...
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Spring feeding for polar bears is over – sea ice levels are now largely...
Polar bears in virtually all regions will now have finished their intensive spring feeding, which means sea ice levels are no longer an issue. A few additional seals won’t make much difference to a...
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Polar bear habitat update mid-May: little change since 1989 despite CO2 increase
Sea ice habitat for polar bears has not become progressively worse each year during their season of critical feeding and mating, as some scaremongers often imply. It’s true that absolute extent of...
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Polar bear habitat update early spring 2018
Spring in the Arctic is April-June (Pilfold et al. 2015). As late April is the peak of this critical spring feeding period for most polar bear populations, this is when sea ice conditions are also...
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Amstrup & colleages can’t refute my critique of their 2007 polar bear...
Polar bear specialists Andrew Derocher and Steven Amstrup recently spent inordinate energy trying to refute the opinion piece I’d written for the Financial Post in celebration of International Polar...
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