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S Beaufort polar bears largely recovered from known 2004-2006 decline, says...
A bit more good news about polar bear populations, this time from an abundance study in the Southern Beaufort Sea. A paper released yesterday showed a 25-50% decline in population size took place...
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Polar bear researchers knew S Beaufort population continued to increase up to...
Why did the Southern Beaufort polar bear population survey stop in 2010? It’s clear that the recently-published and widely-hyped new study stopped before the population rebound from a known decline was...
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Recent S. Beaufort polar bear count was a cherry-picked result – new evidence
New evidence has come to light that mark-recapture field work used to calculate a new population estimate for Southern Beaufort polar bears did not conclude in 2010 as implied in a widely-publicized...
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Polar bear biologists miss the mark in new study on invasive mark-recapture...
Apparently, some biologists think that outputs from complex computer models will convince native Arctic residents that invasive mark-recapture work has no long-term effect on the health and well-being...
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Challenging NOAA’s “Arctic Report Card 2014” on polar bears
NOAA’s list of purported evidence for harm being caused to polar bears by Arctic warming is short and weak. It puts the gloomiest spin possible on the current well-being of an animal with all the...
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If summer ice was critical for S. Beaufort polar bears, 2012 would have...
Did we hear a huge hue and cry in 2013 about starving polar bears and low cub survival in the Southern Beaufort Sea? No, we did not. Despite the record-breaking low summer sea ice extent the year...
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Faux polar bear figures – my editorial in the National Post
Published in the Business section (Financial Post “Comments”) of the National Post this morning: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images [from original NP essay]“Faux polar bear figures” [not my choice of...
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