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Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531165698
Describes the work of Charles Jonkel, a biologist who studied polar bears in the Arctic and primarily in Churchill, Manitoba.
Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575057460
Describe the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of the polar bear.
Author : Andrew E. Derocher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421403052
Presents an introduction to the polar bear, discussing its evolution, physical characteristics, life cycle, predatory behavior, habitat, and the threats to its existence from global warming.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547283050
Young readers can follow scientists as they scan the Alaskan wilderness for these magnificent creatures. Full color.
Author : James Raffan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501155383
From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.
Author : Ian Stirling
Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSD:31822026040337
A treasury of information and outstanding photographs brought together to reveal the fascinating life of the symbol of Arctic survival, the polar bear
Author : Zac Unger
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780306821639
"I like to go out for walks, but it's a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time." -- housewife from Churchill, Manitoba Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic's edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. Churchill is "The Polar Bear Capital of the World," and for one unforgettable "bear season," Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it's really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get "Let's All Be Bear Aware" booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.) Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding "polar bear science" -- and finds out that some of what we've been led to believe about the bears' imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye.
Author : International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group. Working Meeting (8th : 1981 : Oslo, Norway)
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Polar bear Congresses
ISBN : 9782880329006
Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307454645
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. But as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come to symbolize the environmental peril that has arisen due to harmful human practices. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of polar bears has shrunk by half. Today they number just 22,000. Urgent and stirring, On Thin Ice is both a celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of one of earth’s greatest natural treasures.
Author : Sarah Elmeligi
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1771606940
Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated book explores the complex behavioural characteristics of North America's largest land carnivores by examining the bear-human relationship from the bear's perspective. From the first moment Sarah Elmeligi came eye to eye with a grizzly bear, her life changed. In a moment that lasted mere seconds, she began to question everything she thought she knew about bears. How could this docile creature be the same one with a fearsome reputation for vicious attacks? Through years of research, Elmeligi grew to appreciate that bears are so much more than data points, stunning photos, and sensational online stories. Elmeligi expertly weaves the science of bear behaviour with her passionate account of personal encounters. Dive into the life of a bear biologist as Sarah's colleagues recount their own "stories from the field" - intimate moments with bears where they were connected to an animal with personality, decision-making capabilities, and a host of engaging behaviours. Join Elmeligi and Marriott on a journey that examines and shares the behaviour of black, grizzly, and polar bears in North America in a way you've never seen before. What Bears Teach Us will surprise you, inspire you, foster your curiosity, and teach you something new about bears and maybe even yourself.
Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143125372
"Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without that easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalism's older guard, [Jon] Mooallem merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring life into, a broken world."--Back cover.
Author : IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group. Working Meeting
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Polar bear
ISBN : 9782880322069
Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781607340867
Based on a true story, WAITING FOR ICE follows an orphaned polar bear cub as she struggles to find food on Wrangel Island, far north in the Arctic Ocean. Left alone at ten months old, the young female finds herself up against other bears who are bigger and stronger than she is?and just as hungry. Due to rising temperatures, the bears are trapped on the island until the ice packs reform. Only then can they venture out to hunt for seals and whales, using the ice as life rafts.
Author : Gillia M. Olson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Polar bear
ISBN : 9781429645324
"Describes polar bears and their disappearing habitat"-- Provided by publisher.
Author : Susan J. Crockford
Publisher : Library and Archives of Canada
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0991796691
Sir David Attenborough was one of the most trusted and admired men in the world - until early 2019, when he narrated a joint Netflix/WWF documentary called Our Planet that showed several walrus falling off a high cliff to their deaths on jagged rocks below. Hundreds were shown to have died, which Attenborough blamed on humanity's wanton use of fossil fuels. Many viewers, including children, were traumatised by the brutal images. He used this horrifying imagery to jump-start a three year campaign against human-caused global warming that included ten documentaries laden with groundless climate emergency messaging, much of it aimed at the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world. Attenborough's relentless climate activism included a utopian vision of global changes for society eerily similar to the one proposed by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The story told in Fallen Icon is every bit as horrifying as the falling walrus tragedy porn Attenborough and the WWF manipulated to their advantage: it is an especially egregious example of science corrupted for political objectives.