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Climate Change in Ontario
Over the last 50 to 100 years, increased industrialization and human activities have begun to affect the balance of the Earth’s natural climate. Increasing the amount of greenhouse gases causes the Earth’s atmosphere to heat up. When this global warming affects our weather patterns and climate conditions, it is referred to as climate change.
MNR’s Role in Climate Change
Feature: So You Wanna Be a B'ar Tracker?
Follow MNR's Hudson Bay polar bears with the online Polar Bear Tracker
As many of us know, the impacts of climate change are not only going to affect us, but also wild animals. Changes in habitat, food sources, temperature and precipitation are just a few of the things that may require animals to adapt in order to survive or populations don't survive. This is why the Ministry of Natural Resources is researching the effects of climate change on the Southern Hudson Bay polar bear population.
In the fall of 2008 MNR researchers collared 13 polar bears with GPS satellite radio collars along the coasts of James Bay and Hudson Bay. With the collars picking up six GPS locations daily for each bear, researchers can track where the bears are headed with incredible accuracy. This will help them to identify bear movement patterns, as well as how ice conditions will affect survival rates and population abundance. Read more...
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