{"id":3579,"date":"2014-11-26T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2014-11-27T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:49:33","slug":"melting-ice-could-jeopardize-25-of-polar-bears-by-2100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/melting-ice-could-jeopardize-25-of-polar-bears-by-2100\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting ice could jeopardize 25% of polar bears by 2100<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3580\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3580\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3580\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears.jpg\" alt=\"Polar bears, like these photographed near Hudson Bay in 2010, are in jeopardy due to decreasing ice cover in Canada\u2019s Arctic Archipelago. (Photo credit: Stephen Hamilton)\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polar bears, like these photographed near Hudson Bay in 2010, are in jeopardy due to decreasing ice cover in Canada\u2019s Arctic Archipelago. (Photo credit: Stephen Hamilton)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new study suggests that if arctic warming trends continue, a quarter of the world\u2019s polar bears will be unable to survive by 2100. The study uses a climate model to create detailed projections for the ice cover in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the series of islands and channels that dominate the far North of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The model indicates that by 2100, each polar bear population in the Archipelago may have to endure 2\u20135 months of ice-free conditions, where no such conditions exist presently. As polar bears rely on ice to maintain their lifestyle, the authors estimate that as many as 25 per cent of the world\u2019s individuals will not be able to meet their nutritional and reproductive demands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0113746\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>November 26<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Stephen Hamilton, University of Alberta,\u00a0Alberta<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Andrew Derocher, University of Alberta,\u00a0Alberta<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that if arctic warming trends continue, a quarter of the world\u2019s polar bears will be unable to survive by 2100. The study uses a climate model to create detailed projections for the ice cover in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the series of islands and channels that dominate the far North of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[180,174,31,1445,215],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alberta","tag-animals","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-VJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}