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New Issues in Polar Tourism
2013-02-12 11:02:35| Springer Environmental Sciences titles
Communities, Environments, PoliticsNew Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places. The book arises from the recently-formed International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN), and documents the outcomes of its 2010 conference, held at Swedens Abisko ...
Physics of the Upper Polar Atmosphere(Brekke)
2013-02-11 10:48:23| Springer Environmental Sciences titles
series:Springer Atmospheric SciencesThis is the only extended textbook that covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere where the polar lights demonstrates the end product of a process taking place at extremely high latitudes between the solar wind and the upper polar atmosphere. A textboook that meets the modern requriement for reading in order to obtain a master of science or a Dr. of science degree in ...
Polar bears 'may need to be fed by humans'
2013-02-07 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The day may soon come when some of the 19 polar bear populations in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Russia will have to be fed by humans in order to keep them alive during an extended ice-free season or prevent them from roaming into northern communities. Some bears may have to be placed in temporary holding compounds until it is cold enough for them to go back onto the sea ice. In worst-case scenarios, polar bears from southern regions may have to be relocated to more northerly climes that...
Will bold steps be needed to save the beleaguered polar bears?
2013-02-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The day may soon come when some of the 19 polar bear populations in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Russia will have to be fed by humans in order to keep them alive during an extended ice-free season or prevent them from roaming into northern communities. Some bears may have to be placed in temporary holding compounds until it is cold enough for them to go back onto the sea ice. In worst-case scenarios, polar bears from southern regions may have to be relocated to more northerly climes that...
The Inconvenient Truth About Polar Bears
2013-02-02 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In 2008, reports of polar bears' inevitable march toward extinction gripped headlines. Stories of thinning Arctic ice and even polar bear cannibalism combined to make these predators into a powerful symbol in the debate about climate change. The headlines caught Zac Unger's attention, and he decided to write a book about the bears. Unger made a plan to move to Churchill, Manitoba, a flat, gray place on the Hudson Bay in northern Canada accessible only by train or plane. For a few months out...
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