This year is probably a good year for Svalbard’s polar bears because there is a lot of sea ice here compared to recent years,” he said [The Guardian, 2 April…
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Polar bear habitat around Svalbard Norway above average despite high temps in N. Atlantic
From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford Sea ice extent for Svalbard was above average yesterday and has been since 17 July, despite “record-breaking” sea surface temperatures in June. The temperature…
17th century documents & 1970s ice maps show sea ice habitat in Svalbard has always varied greatly
Currently, there is more ice than was present in early May in many years of the 1600s.
Return of Svalbard sea ice in time for seal births and the polar bear feeding bonanza
It seems that every fall and winter for the last decade at least, there has been hand-wringing about the lack of Svalbard sea ice and what a tragedy this is for polar bears.
Svalbard walrus thrive in the face of sea ice decline, mocking predictions of future catastrophe
In other words, the Svalbard population of Atlantic walrus increased 109% between 2006 and 2018, even as summer sea ice declined markedly in the Barents Sea.
Polar bear habitat update: Winter conditions well on their way across the Arctic except in Svalbard
Sea ice is developing quickly over Hudson Bay and moving slowly towards the Bering Sea but the Svalbard archipelago is still devoid of pack ice.
Eastern Canadian Arctic Has Much More Sea Ice Than Usual While Svalbard Polar Bears Deal with Less
Yet contrary to predictions, polar bears in Svalbard are thriving.
BBC Response to Svalbard Complaint
Their only defence of the omission of all relevant facts is that BBC News Editors can choose to include whatever they want!
Higher than average Svalbard sea ice extent in November 2021 has implications for birth of cubs
Results of polar bear health monitoring in the spring of 2021 indicated the bears are doing just fine after last year’s low ice levels. Despite this evidence, a single bear photographed killing a…
Svalbard polar bear paper falsely assumes that loss of genetic diversity has negative consequences
. As far as I can see, it’s all meaningless number-crunching without relevance to the real world of polar bears.
Barents Sea polar bears thriving despite huge summer ice loss: spring research results are in
After being locked out last year, fieldwork monitoring polar bears in the Svalbard region of the Barents Sea resumed this spring. The results show that despite having to deal with…
Surprising sea ice thickness across the Arctic is good news for polar bears
From Polar Bear Science Posted on May 27, 2021 This year near the end of May the distribution of thickest sea ice (3.5-5m/11.5-16.4 ft – or more) is a bit surprising,…
Polar bear problems onshore in Svalbard before prime feeding season
A polar bear broke into the emergency room of the cabin area at Fredheim on Thursday afternoon, damaging a window and interior furnishings, before it was chased away by a…
Polar bear attack in Svalbard: victim survives, polar bear does not
A man was attacked from behind this morning by a small male polar bear on the east coast of Svalbard, Norway, where there is abundant sea ice. His companion shot…
Claim: Svalbard glaciers lost their protective buffer in the mid-1980s and have been melting ever since
Rising air temperature in the mid-1980s considerably increased the amount of water that was melting across the glaciers and rapidly filled the air pockets in the firn, progressively weakening its…
Criminal charges dropped in case of polar bear shot by cruise ship guards in 2018
The guards from a cruise ship who shot an emaciated bear in self-defense in late July 2018 on the remote island of Phippsøya in northern Svalbard have had criminal charges…
Fatal polar bear attack in Svalbard unfairly blamed on lack of sea ice
A polar bear attacked a camping site Friday in Norway’s remote Svalbard Islands, killing a 38-year-old Dutch man before being shot and killed by onlookers, authorities on the Arctic island…
A tiny arctic shrub reveals secrets of plant growth on Svalbard
Counting tiny rings showed synchronous growth across an entire arctic archipelago NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSHARE PRINT E-MAIL The polar willow (Salix polaris) may not seem like much when you look…
Svalbard finds tranquilizing & removing problem polar bears comes with risks to bears
From Polar Bear Science Posted on March 29, 2020 | Comments Off on Svalbard finds tranquilizing & removing problem polar bears comes with risks to bears In Svalbard, Norway, it…
Svalbard Norway now has more polar bear habitat than it did two decades ago
From Polar Bear Science Posted on March 1, 2020 | Sea ice around Svalbard, Norway at the end of February 2020 is way above average, as the graph below shows…
Ship with Climate Change Warriors caught in ice, Warriors evacuated
From Maritime and Crimean Shipping News Erofey Schkvarkin News September 4, 2019 4:09 am Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off…
Fat polar bears [and lots of them] drive public confidence in future of the species
From Polar Bear Science What is causing the death of the polar bear as a climate change icon? Fat bears are part of it, but mostly it’s the fact that…
Friday Funny – Svalbard Revisited
Guest essay by David Archibald A visit to the weather station at the airport is the highlight of any trip to Svalbard. Of course that weather station has been the…
Hot times near Svalbard – Volcanic range discovered
Jorge of Norway writes: Researchers have found a 1,500 km volcanic mountain chain hidden off the coast of Svalbard, which could soon break the surface to form a new island…
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