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NPR: Melting Arctic Ice Imperils Polar Bears
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
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All Things Considered , August 29, 2008 · The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that sea ice could reach all-time record lows in these last few weeks of the Arctic summer. Margaret Williams, who directs the World Wildlife Fund's Alaska office,...
Tags: polar bear, arctic, ice, global warming, melting, polar bears
Dion pushing Liberals left: Harper
Inuvik :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Dion and where he is taking the Liberal party, but more importantly indicates a direction for the country that I don't think Canadians are prepared to accept," the prime minister added.
Tags: Stephen Harper, prime minister, Harper Sees Parliament, Mr. Harper, Stephane Dion, polar bears, Canada, minister stephen, environment minister, Canadian
9 polar bears observed on risky open ocean swims
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Associated Press Writer Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska's northwest coast, an increase from previous surveys that may indicate warming conditions are forcing bears to make riskier, long-distance swims to stable...
Tags: polar bear, ice, polar bears, Alaskan
Alaska sues over listing polar bear as threatened
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Gov. Sarah Palin and other state officials fear a listing will cripple offshore oil and gas development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in Alaska's northern waters, which provide prime habitat for the only polar bears under U.S. jurisdiction. "We believe...
Tags: polar bear, alaska, climate change, ice, gas, oil, polar bears, Alaskan
Groups sue to shield Arctic mammals
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility July 8th, 2008 02:25 PM Last Modified: July 8th, 2008 02:26 PM Two conservation groups are challenging the Bush administration's recent decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses in the growing pursuit of oil...
Tags: polar bear, polar bears, bush administration, Bush, Alaska Public Radio Network, conservation groups
Photo exhibit: eye-to-eye with polar bears
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility One of the Steven Kazlowski photos in the Burke Museum's exhibit "The Last Polar Bear." Exhibit preview "The Last Polar Bear" Opening day 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, with normal hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily and until 8 p.m. on First Thursdays, at the Burke...
Tags: polar bear, polar bears, Burke Museum
Canadians argue for polar bear hunt
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Officials from northern Canada were in Washington on Monday to make an unpopular argument: Let U.S. hunters continue to kill polar bears for sport. The politicians from Canada's Northwest Territory asked Interior Department officials to allow U.S. sportsmen...
Tags: polar bear, polar bears, Canada, bears hunt
Companies get OK to annoy polar bears
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses...
Tags: polar bears
Polar bear fatally shot in northern Iceland
Reykjavík :: Iceland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Iceland — Police in Iceland say they fatally shot the first polar bear seen in the country in 20 years after the animal threatened people. Authorities say police in northern Iceland shot the bear Tuesday after determining that the drugs used to sedate...
Tags: polar bears, Iceland, northern iceland
Call for three seal species to join endangered list
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Environmental campaigners have called for three species of Arctic seal to be listed as endangered amid mounting concern about the impact on wildlife of the melting of sea ice caused by global warming. The call by the Centre for Biological Diversity for...
Tags: polar bear, endangered species, ice, global warming, environment, polar bears
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