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Polar bears at Kaktovik, Alaska not stranded due to retreating ice
“I’ve lived here all my life and there are more bears every year. I read stories about polar bears being on the brink of extinction because of global warming, look out of my window and start to laugh.”...
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New interactive sea ice atlas for Alaska, 1953-2012: check out past polar...
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is offering a new interactive sea ice map (which they call an atlas), that looks interesting and potentially useful, announced at Alaska Dispatch over the weekend...
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Chukchi-Beaufort sea ice atlas: check out polar bear habitat 1850-2013
It’s here – as promised and right on schedule — the sea ice atlas put together by University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) now has ice concentration maps for Alaska going back to 1850 — and for every year...
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Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea: June 2014 map
Here is the June 2014 follow-up to my post on the July 2013 track map for female polar bears being followed by satellite in the Beaufort Sea by the US Geological Survey (USGS) – “Ten out of ten polar...
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Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea – July 2014 map and subpopulation...
Here is the July 2014 follow-up to my post on the July 2013 track map for female polar bears being followed by satellite in the Beaufort Sea by the US Geological Survey (USGS) – “Ten out of ten polar...
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Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea – August 2014 map
Here is the August 2014 follow-up to my post on the July 2013 track map for female polar bears being followed by satellite in the Beaufort Sea by the US Geological Survey (USGS) – “Ten out of ten polar...
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Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea – September 2014 map
Here is the September 2014 follow-up to my post on the July 2013 track map for female polar bears being followed by satellite in the Beaufort Sea by the US Geological Survey (USGS) – “Ten out of ten...
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Where have all the walrus gone?
Yes, I wondered too. After all the kerfuffle at the beginning of the month there’s been rather dead silence [see my last post here]. So I Googled and found some tidbits. Chukchi Sea walrus, June 2014....
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Walrus mass haulout hype refuted, the video
Produced by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, there is now a short video summary of my recently-released GWPF briefing paper, which I wrote and narrated. Watch it below: Available also at GWPF TV:...
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Beaufort Sea polar bear subpopulation boundary has been changed
Environment Canada recently posted a set of maps on its website that show it has moved the boundary between the polar bear subpopulation it shares with the USA — without a word to the media or a note...
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Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea – October 2014 map shows most ice...
Here is the October 2014 follow-up to my post on the July 2013 track map for female polar bears being followed by satellite in the Beaufort Sea by the US Geological Survey (USGS) – “Ten out of ten...
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Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea – November 2014 map
Here is the November 2014 follow-up to my post on the July 2013 track map for female polar bears being followed by satellite in the Beaufort Sea by the US Geological Survey (USGS) – “Ten out of ten...
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska won’t protect polar bears from...
And the proposed coastal refuge won’t protect the denning areas of the majority of Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears, because most females den out on the sea ice, not on land. The folks at Polar Bears...
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Designated critical habitat for Alaskan polar bears offers no protection from...
The Obama administration is apparently attempting to overturn a previous ruling that rejected proposed Alaskan “critical habitat” for polar bears in 2013 – as if “critical habitat” would protect the...
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Beaufort Sea polynyas open two weeks before 1975 – open water is good news...
With masses of very thick, multiyear ice off Alaska this spring, the developing polynyas (open water) at either end of the Beaufort Sea are providing essential polar bear hunting habitat. Patches of...
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Tracking polar bears in the Southern Beaufort June 2015 – all 17 bears out on...
Sixteen females with satellite collars plus one with a glue-on transmitter – down from 17 with collars and 6 with tags last month – all out on the ice during the month of June 2015. Polar bears were...
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Polar bears fine now but give us more money: US Fish & Wildlife Management...
Between-the-lines message of the recently released (and hyped to death) Conservation Management Plan for polar bears by the US Fish & Wildlife Service is that the bears really have nothing to worry...
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Polar bear habitat looking good for early summer – last days before the fast
Some polar bears may already be living mostly off the fat put on over the spring but others may catch a seal or two on the sea ice before the summer fast begins – since the ice hasn’t left the coast in...
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New paper finds experts were wrong: polar bears are not “walking hibernators”
A polar bear paper just out in Science concludes the experts were wrong, polar bears are not “walking hibernators” – in summer, they slow down and live off their accumulated fat just like other...
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Pacific walrus sob stories begin again
Now we have poor hunting conditions in the Bering Strait touted as evidence that “walrus migration patterns have changed” with the implication that this is because “…the past eight years have had the...
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