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Alaska's Bears and Climate Change


Alaska's Bears and Climate Change | Alaska Know Before You Go

Throughout the northern hemisphere, we are seeing a shift north for many species as temperatures increase, and that is no different for Alaska's grizzlies. This ...

In an era of climate change, Alaska's predators fall prey to politics

Over the course of 17 days, the team killed 94 brown bears — including several year-old cubs, who stuck close to their mothers, and 11 newer ...

Climate Change and Wild Foods in Alaska

Alaska is at the forefront of climate change. Rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, changes to the cryosphere (the part of the Earth system made ...

Climate Change Is Affecting Alaska's Salmon—and Its Bears

Climate change is altering the lives of the sockeye salmon in Katmai National Park. In the long term, that could be detrimental to the ...

Fat Bear Week: Yet another reason to fight climate change and ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual celebration of the biggest brown bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, but climate change ...

Alaskan Natives Share Perspectives on Climate Change | Arctic Focus

n Alaska's North Slope, people from four Inupiaq communities—Wainwright, Barrow, Kaktovik, and Nuiqsut—cross paths with southern Beaufort Sea polar bears at ...

In an era of climate change, Alaska's predators fall prey to politics

With Alaska's caribou herds shrink, agencies are culling predators like bears and wolves. The true threat is much more complex.

Alaska: Inupiaq - Tribes & Climate Change - nau.edu

The endangered Arctic region serves as critical habitat for endemic species such as the polar bear that depend on sea ice for survival. Polar bears hunt off sea ...

Alaskan Brown Bears and Pacific Salmon Face the Effects of Global ...

Climate change has been a popular topic since James Hansen gave his testimony to Congress in 1988, expressing the disasters that would come from global ...

Caribou and Climate Change, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

When most people wonder about how global climate change will affect Alaska's wildlife, polar bears and walruses are the animals that typically come to mind.

Arctic Peoples and Ecosystems | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Seal meat makes up a considerable portion of many Alaska Natives' diets. Changes in the land and sea environments impact the economy, health and ...

Alaska refuge drilling could threaten polar bears with 'lethal' oil spills

The risk of exposure to oil spills could be worsened by climate change, which is forcing polar bears to spend greater amounts of time on land in ...

Alaska's Grizzly Bears Drop Salmon for Berries as Climate Changes

Kodiak Island's brown bears usually feast on salmon early in the season, but when the island's elderberries ripened early, they chose berries over fish, a new ...

Melting Arctic Sea Ice Threatens Polar Bears - VOA News

Communities in circumpolar regions of Alaska are dealing with a triple challenge of climate change: coastal erosion, thawing of permafrost ...

Coexisting with Polar Bears

The Effects of a Changing Landscape. Alaska's Arctic is experiencing dramatic shifts across the landscape with the effects of climate change occurring at twice ...

A Sensitive Giant: Alaska's Bear Glacier - NASA

Glaciers are particularly sensitive to climate trends, and widespread glacier recession is considered an indicator of global warming. 1986. 2002. Miles. 10. 2.5.

What Climate Change Means for Alaska - US EPA

Climate change is likely to affect Alaska's animal biodiversity. Declining Arctic sea ice can harm polar bear populations, by reducing their ability to hunting ...

Polar bear attack in Wales, Alaska, highlights climate change link

Polar bear attacks are exceedingly rare. Between 1870 and 2014, there were only 73 documented attacks by wild polar bears across Canada, ...

Climate Change Is Affecting Alaska's Salmon—and Its Bears

The sockeye salmon run in Alaska's Bristol Bay Watershed is the largest and richest on Earth—producing about 46 percent of the world's wild ...

Polar Bear | Defenders of Wildlife

Habitat loss, human disturbance and climate change are combining to overwhelm polar bears across their Arctic range. Alaska's Arctic is rapidly ...