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Montreal Gazette, Canada: Polar bears face uncertain future in Arctic
Winnipeg :: Canada | 10 months ago
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One polar bear bolted past a pair of teenage girls heading home from school. Another helped itself to caribou behind a pickup truck. People peering out their windows found the bears wandering in their yards. "No one likes to see that," says Joe Savikataaq,...
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Experts meet to decide fate of polar bear
Winnipeg :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility Canada's polar bears are not teetering on the brink of extinction and don't need the alarmist rhetoric coming from some of the world's biologists, some Inuit experts said Friday at a one-day summit to discuss the fate of the arctic mammals. While scientists...
Tags: polar bear, ice, polar bears, Protecting Canada, sea ice
Polar bear protection to be focus of national round table
Winnipeg :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice says he hopes to find common ground among the scientists, government officials, environmental activists and Inuit about the future of Canada's polar bears at Friday's round table in Winnipeg. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian...
Tags: polar bears, Canada, Jim Prentice, federal environment, round table, environment minister
Alaska to sue over beluga whale protection
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Alaska — The state of Alaska says it will go to court to challenge the federal decision to protect beluga whales in Cook Inlet under the Endangered Species Act. The state said Wednesday it wants the federal government to withdraw its decision to list...
Tags: beluga whale, alaska, pro, palin, polar bears, Alaska Public Radio Network, Alaska News, sarah, belugas whale, endangered species
Environmental News Network: Polar bears creaking under the strain
Winnipeg :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility Toronto, Canada - Eight of the 13 Canadian polar bear sub-populations are either depleted or showing significant signs of stress, and future reduction of sea-ice in the Arctic could result in a loss of two-thirds of the world's polar bears within 50...
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Sheboygan Polar Bears Ready for the New Years Day Plunge
The Sheboygan, Wisconsin Polar Bears will take their annual dive into Lake Michigan on January 1, 2009. There are usually 300 to 400 people that take the polar bear plunge and jump around in the freezing cold waters of Lake Michigan. This year, the group...
Tags: sheboygan, lake michigan, polar bears, new years day, january 1, wisconsin
Goose Eggs Could Save Polar Bears
Oslo :: Norway | 11 months ago
Credibility Meanwhile, snow geese are thriving near the western Hudson Bay, and researchers say there are in fact too many of them. Their eggs can be a good food source, researchers report in the online version of the journal Polar Biology . The geese nest on tundra...
Tags: polar bears, snow goose, goose nesting
Bulldogs outlast Polar Bears
Ottumwa :: IA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Metro saga for the Des Moines North Polar Bear boys basketball team. Metro saga for the Des Moines North Polar Bear boys basketball team...Head coach Chris Gravett’s Ottumwa Bulldogs held on in the Metro opener with a 65-55 hard-fought physical affair...
Bush relaxes endangered species protection
Washington :: DC :: USA | 12 months ago
Credibility Just six weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, the Bush administration issued revised endangered species regulations Thursday to reduce the input of federal scientists and to block the law from being used to fight global warming.
Tags: Bush, endangered species, bush administration, polar bears, federal agency, Dirk Kempthorne, species act, global warming, bush relaxes, government scientists
Jim Prentice convenes polar bear talks
Winnipeg :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Environment Minister Jim Prentice is convening a national roundtable on the polar bear Jan. 16 in Winnipeg. Prentice says he will call in territories and provinces, Inuit, scientists, wildlife managers and conservationists to discuss ways to protect about...
Tags: polar bears, Jim Prentice
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