Donations for climate threats to Grizzly Bears solicited "Climate change poses new and little understood challenges to the bears. There is evidence suggesting that bears are denning later, and staying on the landscape longer in the fall when unintended shootings by hunters are most common. Most importantly, a changing climate can also impact food resources for grizzlies." |
How Climate Change Threatens Grizzly Bears "This story originally appeared on The Huffington Post and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration." "I hope you're sitting down: Journalism doesn't exist anymore. It hasn't for at least ten years now. The closest thing we have to journalism now is agenda-driven propaganda dressed up as "objective, hard-hitting news." Yes, this includes your favorite muckraking work over at Mother Jones or whatever. Journalism died a pretty sad death, and yeah, we're all kind of bummed about it." - Nicholas Pell |
2016 - "With climate change, grizzly bears may hibernate less" "Rocky Mountain hikers might need to start packing more bear spray: Climate change may reduce the time that grizzly bears spend in hibernation — leaving them more time to scare the crap out of any humans wandering in their territory." "Science" |
2016 - "Animalia Love in the time of climate change: Grizzlies and polar bears are now mating" Washpo is worried because "climate change" lets these two species interbreed. Scientists in 2008 pointed out they're the same species. The polar bear is the northern race of the Grizzly bear. |
2017: Grizzly population 4x what is used to be "U.S. officials to lift Yellowstone grizzly bear protections" "Grizzlies in all continental U.S. states except Alaska have been protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1975, when just 136 bears roamed in and around Yellowstone. There are now an estimated 700 grizzlies in the area that includes northwestern Wyoming, southwestern Montana and eastern Idaho, leading the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conclude that the population has recovered." |