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A close up of an ABC Islands bear (Ursus arctos sitkensis) or Sitka brown bear taken on Baranof Island. It is a subspecies of brown bear or grizzly bear that resides in Southeast Alaska and is found only on the ABC Islands (Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island) . The bear is slightly different to a standard brown bear in that around 6.5% of the X chromosomes from the ABC Islands bears have recently come from polar bears. This is in contrast to 1% of the ABC Islands bears genomes containing polar bear DNA. It is believed that the present polar bear DNA stems from a group of polar bears that were stranded in Southeast Alaska at the end of the last glacial period due to receding ice. Male brown bears migrated to the island and interbred, leaving the phenotype and genotype of these bears to be primarily brown bear.
The story of the ABC islands bear is warning as to the future of all polar bears as the arctic continues to warm at twice the rate of the rest of the world and the fastest rate in measurable history. The media often focuses on the record low summer sea ice coverage which according to NASA is declining at a rate of 13.2% per decade and accelerating. However perhaps more startling is the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) report released in April on the age of arctic sea ice which provides a better indicator of the decreasing thickness of the ice and total ice volume. Ice older than one year covered 61% of the region in 1984, compared to just 34% in 2018. Only 2% of the Arctic’s sea ice is now five years old or older, compared to 30% in 1984. With several consecutive years of winter heatwaves in the arctic, the total surface area of the ice is now shrinking in across all seasons, not just in summer. Seems we are heading for an ice free summer arctic within 10 and 30 years from now.
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ABC Transport's Kenworth T908 Triple Road-Train make's it's way north of Pt Augusta bound for Darwin.
This small cinema frontage is designed to be easily inserted between other buildings in a model High Street. Here it is seen in ABC trim between the Kingsway SSM Supermarket and HRS HIgh Street shops. It is now available fom the website.
ABC Coach Hire of Pendlebury took delivery of fIve new Neoplan Tourliners during 2017. I encountered OU17 OTG in Llanberis this afternoon, 22nd September, 2018.
Purchased from Isle Coaches for preservation by a friend of mine, I was impressed to see it had been repainted since the last time I saw it, going back into it's original ABC Travel livery, complete with branding for 'The Yorkshireman 280' which operated between Southport, Preston, Clitheroe and Skipton. The 280 continues to run today by Preston Bus, however it's been curtailed to run between Preston and Skipton.
N600ABC arrives at Showbus 2018 looking fab in red and cream.
Let's start at the very beginning, it's a very good place to start, with the letters ABC cunningly combined to form this great tangle pattern. Chance for some shading on this one to highlight some of the hidden shapes, e.g. the band formed by the base section of the 'A'.
All my tangle patterns are also available on my blog perfectly4med.wordpress.com