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W Hudson Bay freeze-up earlier than average for 2nd year in a row, polar bear...
This is the second year in a row that freeze-up of Western Hudson Bay ice has come earlier than average. Movement of tagged bears and reports by folks on the ground in WH show some polar bears are...
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Biologists escalate conflict over Inuit management of polar bear populations
Yesterday, two polar bear specialists and an inept freelance journalist poured gasoline on the already-volatile issue of polar bear management in Nunavut. Quote of the day: “I think there’s a...
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Derocher admits Western Hudson Bay polar bear population may not be declining
Earlier this year, I challenged a journalist to ask to see the data used by Andrew Derocher and his colleagues to support their repeated claims that Western Hudson Bay polar bears are having trouble...
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May a polar bear not be something you are faced with in 2019
A polar bear can be too close: fat or thin, it can be deadly. Happy New Year. And condolences to those whose lives were torn apart by a polar bear encounter in 2018.
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Heads up Newfoundland & Labrador: polar bear season has begun
There is now enough sea ice off southern Labrador and the northern tip of Newfoundland for Davis Strait polar bears to come ashore looking for food. Baby seals won’t be available for months yet. And...
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Polar bear voted newsmaker of the year in Nunavut: A climate change emblem...
This Nunatsiaq News editorial is worth a read (2 January 2019): Meet our newsmaker of the year: the polar bear. “But for this year, we’re not choosing a person. For 2018, our newsmaker of the year...
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Polar bears have been terrorizing a Russian town on the Barents Sea since...
Since early December, a group of 52 polar bears have terrorized the Russian village of Belushaya Guba on southern Novaya Zemlya. The aggressiveness of some of the bears, their boldness in entering...
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Polar bears walking the streets on Novaya Zemlya are habituated garbage...
What a bunch of sensationalist claptrap about the polar bears on Novaya Zemlya but I guess it sells papers and raises donations (WWF and PBI, I mean you).1 Seriously, if the bears were coming for us,...
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International Polar Bear Day: a time to admit the species is not threatened...
Times have changed: where once many scientists worried that polar bears could not survive an Arctic with 40% less ice, now the concern is that people of the Arctic might not be able to keep themselves...
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Fat polar bears causing trouble onshore in Labrador plus sightings in...
What sounds like a mother and half-grown cub paid a visit to a cabin outside Black Tickle, Labrador and frightened the residents trapped inside. The aggressive female was part of at least 10 bears seen...
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Even with Inuit lives at stake, polar bear specialists make unsupported claims
The standoff between Inuit and polar bear specialists regarding the status of polar bears in Canada is not going to end until someone in authority demands to see the data scientists insist contradict...
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First Churchill problem polar bear report of the season: its only incident...
We are constantly told things are getting worse for polar bears, especially those in Western Hudson Bay, because the ice-free season there was predicted to decline earlier than other regions. It hasn’t...
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Sea ice adjacent to all major polar bear onshore summer refugia at 31 July 2019
For all the hand-wringing over sea ice extent this year and its supposed similarity to 2012, what is truly remarkable is that at the end of July ice remains adjacent to every single major terrestrial...
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Churchill polar bear activity report for week 7 shows oddly few problems so far
It’s week 7 of the Churchill polar bear season that began in early July and it’s been remarkably quiet: compared to 208 and 2016, there were half as many problem bear incidents in 2019. A few bears...
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Ryrkaypiy ‘over-run’ by >50 polar bears is probably due to more Chukchi Sea...
A scary-sounding headline from the BBC today screams “Ryrkaypiy: Far-north Russian village overrun by polar bears“. A little research would have shown (as I do below) that this sort of event is not...
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No joke: Russian scientists marked problem Kara Sea polar bear with T-34
The media are so gullible. So eager are they for a sympathetic polar bear victim that news outlets everywhere carried a story earlier this week about a Russian polar bear that had ‘T-34’ spray-painted...
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Hudson Bay sea ice cover at early summer 2020 is similar to the 1980s
Don’t expect to hear this news from polar bear activists busy promoting the supposed threat to polar bears from declining Arctic sea ice but ice cover over Hudson Bay so far this summer has been very...
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Few bears on the ice off Western Hudson Bay at 14 August but will be onshore...
Polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher published a tracking map of his collared polar bear females that shows one bear (out of 11) still on the rapidly diminishing ice north of Churchill in Western...
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Fatal polar bear attack in Svalbard unfairly blamed on lack of sea ice
A fatal polar bear attack in Svalbard, in the early hours of 28 August 2020 just outside the main town of Longyearbyen, is being unreasonably blamed on lack of sea ice. Details of the attack show it...
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First polar bear alert report for Churchill an astonishing seven weeks later...
The first report of the Polar Bear Alert Program in Churchill, Manitoba was released today (1 September), a full seven weeks later than last year due to many bears remaining on the Western Hudson Bay...
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