On this edition of Your Call, we rebroadcast our discussion about the impacts of the climate crisis on polar bears.
Climate change is heating up the Arctic faster than anywhere else in the world and according to a new study in the Journal Nature Climate Change, without drastic reductions in greenhouse emissions, polar bears could be starved into extinction by 2100. What s being done to save the polar bears?
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Scientists fear a planned hunt for oil on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this winter could harm female polar bears and their newborn cubs that live along the southern edge of the Beaufort Sea. Steven Kazlowski/Minden Pictures
Plan to map oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge ignores environmental risks, critics say
Dec. 21, 2020 , 11:35 AM
A plan to crisscross parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with earth-shaking machines that help map underground oil formations is drawing criticism from scientists who study the remote Alaskan wilderness.
Two federal agencies in recent weeks have issued preliminary decisions concluding that the work, which will span 1400 square kilometers, poses no significant risk to the landscape or animals living there, including federally protected polar bears. The decisions are part of a fast-paced push to launch oil exploration inside the refuge in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration.
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“Male adult polar bears have necks that are larger than their heads. So, they’re cone shaped. And physiologically, collars fall off of them. They won’t keep them on.”
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Two polar bears amble across some newly forming ice and snow along the shore of Western Hudson Bay. Researchers came to the Minnesota industrial giant looking for an alternative to radio collars, which don t work on many bears. Photo courtesy of 3M
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. Here’s the problem. Polar bears live in some of the most inhospitable and inaccessible habitat on Earth tough for humans and practically anything people make.
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