Posts tagged: scientists

WWF response to inaccurate polar bear quote

Contrary to what was reported in your recent story (“Let’s put hysteria over polar bears on ice”), WWF welcomes the news that polar bear populations in Western Hudson Bay may be stable or slightly increasing.

April 18, 2012
Posted by Martin von Mirbach

Wishes for a Living Planet

Kids aren’t the only ones who make “wish lists” come holiday season. Here, WWF-Canada conservation experts share their wishes for a sustainable, living planet.

December 13, 2011
Posted by Kathryn Dorrell

Tracking narwhals

In mid-August 2011, representatives from WWF Canada worked with a 15-person field crew to fit satellite tags to a number of narwhals in the region of North Baffin Island, Canada.

October 21, 2011
Posted by Peter Ewins

Team NAFO

From a young age I’ve been well aware of the acronym “NAFO”.

October 12, 2011
Posted by Guest Blogger

Fall Migrations and the National Energy Board Meeting in Inuvik

It’s fall in Inuvik. The Porcupine Caribou are crossing the Dempster highway. Canada Geese are beginning their flight south. Bowhead whales are travelling east from the Beaufort to Chukchi sea. And leaders in Industry, Government, and Conservation were spotted travelling North into Inuvik to meet with Inuit, Gwich’in and Inuvialuit from across Canada for the National Energy Board’s Roundtable on Arctic Offshore Drilling.

September 27, 2011
Posted by Robert Powell

Getting people and polar bears to live in harmony

At the end of August, I visited Arviat, on the SW Hudson Bay coast, and one of the conservation projects WWF is doing with Inuit communities.

September 15, 2011
Posted by Peter Ewins

The evil partner of climate change: Ocean acidification

Coral reefs are in decline worldwide because of global warming, overfishing and other impacts. Ocean acidification, unless rapidly addressed, will kill them completely. The outlook is grim: tropical reefs globally may start dissolving as early as mid-century if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are allowed to double by that time from their pre-industrial level.

August 31, 2011
Posted by Bettina Saier

“Climate change is making the impossible, possible”: Team on the brink of rowing to the Magnetic North Pole

The Old Pulteney Row to the Pole is of global significance as both a pioneering maritime adventure and an environmental expedition. The expedition graphically demonstrates the realities of environmental changes in a unique adventure.

August 24, 2011
Posted by Guest Blogger

Remembering Marty Bergmann

On August 20, the Arctic conservation community lost an important friend and champion: Marty Bergmann, a leader and inspiration to many Arctic scientists lost his life on the First Air flight crash near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, along with 11 others. On behalf of WWF, I send my sympathies to Marty’s family and friends, as well as the entire community.

August 23, 2011
Posted by Arlin Hackman

Lake Sturgeon: Fascinating Fish

They’re big, they’re ancient, and they’re one of the best measures of river health we have. That’s right: we’re talking about Lake Sturgeon.

August 08, 2011
Posted by Emily Giles

Global Tiger Day: WWF calls for an end to poaching

Silent as night – just a flash of orange and black in amongst the trees. Tigers are mysterious, majestic, and awe-inspiring creatures. As top predators, they depend on their habitat, and their ecosystem relies on them. So what right do humans have to take that away?

July 29, 2011
Posted by Steph Morgan

Students on Ice: Day 1 – Touching down in Iceland

I jerked awake in that way that only happens when you’re propped up in the middle seat on a redeye flight. I had been dozing, but I wasn’t sure for how long. All around me, I could hear the excited murmurs of students, and as I looked out the window, I realized why: we had reached Iceland.

July 25, 2011
Posted by Sara Falconer

Our blue planet: looking backwards from space – and forward…..

As the Opel Project Earth expedition kicked-off in Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier, my colleague Martin von Mirbach and I were deeply honored to spend an evening with Dr. Buzz Aldrin, the 14 Project Earth students, singer-songwriter Katia Melua, and Udloriak Hanson, special advisor to Mary Simon, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

July 22, 2011
Posted by Peter Ewins

Students on Ice: The final countdown

It’s an intensely hot July afternoon in Toronto, and I’m digging my mittens and long underwear out of the closet.

July 17, 2011
Posted by Sara Falconer

Who is an expert on the Arctic?

Academic conferences such as this one are filled with experts. Experts in anthropology, law, sociology, education and several more disciplines. How do we know they’re expert? Because the vast majority have letters after their name that tell us so – there are more doctors here than in your average hospital (though I wouldn’t want these doctors performing surgery on me). But when it comes to telling the world about the Arctic, are these the right sort of experts?

June 28, 2011
Posted by Clive Tesar
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