Prevalence of Antibodies Against Toxoplasma gondii in Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) From Svalbard and East Greenland.
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In particular, in polar regions it appears to weaken the Arctic Oscillation winds.
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An attempt to ban the international trade in polar bear parts has provoked a heated battle at the Cites conservation meeting in Bangkok.
The effects of retreating glaciers on mountains and in polar regions, deforestation in South America and forest fires across sub-Saharan Africa are also shown in the atlas.
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Declines in polar-bear body condition have been widely observed.
"Climate change in polar regions is expected to be among the greatest of any region on the Earth, and it will cause major physical, ecological, sociological and economic impacts, " Dr Toepfer said.
"We will continue to work with our partners to reduce the pressure that trade in polar bear parts puts on this iconic arctic species, even as we take on the longer term threat that climate change poses to polar bears, " he said.
The more you immerse yourself in cold water, the more your body will adapt to the extreme temperature change, according to Tipton, who started off 2013 by donning Bermuda shorts and participating in a polar bear plunge in his hometown of Gosport, England.
In the polar regions, even the smallest of holes in your warm clothing can have major implications on your core temperature and survival.
"Even though they seem far away, changes in the polar regions could have an impact on both hemispheres, with sea level rise and changes in climate patterns, " he said.
Workers in the polar north were given better wages and longer holidays than anyone else.
Medium-size M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts in the polar regions and occasional minor radiation storms.
There's the tale of the Chelyushkin, a ship crushed in the polar ice.
The robot is powered entirely by solar energy, so it can operate in pristine polar environments without adding to air pollution.
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The Mars Global Surveyor is currently in a polar orbit, giving its onboard camera a good view as the frost sublimed.
There has been speculation that Knut died from stress relating to three female bears in his enclosure as in captivity polar bears can live to the age of 30.
This offered scientific proof of why viewers may have been especially disturbed by the dead-eyed characters in The Polar Express, and why film producers need to be mindful of the uncanny valley.
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The connection between the Sami people and their reindeer has been about survival in a hostile land and it runs very deep: there is a legacy lasting millennia of living together in the polar North.
He explained that it was not possible to determine the cause, but that the changes could be linked to the environment - more specifically to pollutants that have built up in the Arctic, and in the polar bears' bodies.
The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.
The parents of a schoolboy injured in an attack by a polar bear in the Arctic which left one other pupil dead, are at his hospital bedside.
Among its projects: the Mecca-to-Medina high-speed railway in Saudi Arabia, the Marmaray railway linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul in Turkey and the Ural Polar railway project in Russia.
Canada, which has 16, 000 of the 20, 000 to 25, 000 polar bears left in the wild, says polar bear populations are not threatened and the animal does not meet the Appendix 1 criteria.
In the 1980s polar bears became "the poster child" for anti-zoo movement after being kept in cramped concrete pits whose only attempt at recreating the bear's eco-system was white paint.
"We were 50 companies just independently attached by a group of similar shareholders, " he explains, sitting in his spacious yet unpretentious office at Empresas Polar headquarters in Caracas.
And the chances of finding it were boosted last week by research in another inhospitable polar corner.
This argument comes from two sources that are in most ways polar opposites.
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In captivity, polar bears can live until they are about 30 years old.
But she was also heavily involved in the charitable Polar Foundation.
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