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Zoo solves mystery of celibate polar bears-

Puzzled zookeepers in northern Japan have discovered the reason why their attempts to... more

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Homelessness Among Polar Bears on the Rise

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Oldest polar bear dies at 42

Ottawa The world’s oldest polar bear, orphaned as a cub in the cold Russian... more

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World's oldest polar bear dies at 41 in Canada

Debby, the world's oldest polar bear, has died _ just one month shy of her 42nd... more

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Polar Bears Eating Each Other Due to Starvation

VIDEO REPORT: Scientists claim Arctic polar bears are so hungry they are eating other... more

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Wanted: Polar bear pics for science

Nov. 17, 2008 -- If you have taken one or more photographs of polar bears in the wild,... more

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Life vests for polar bears on melting ice

As the climate crisis mounts and Arctic icebergs slip away, polar bears are suffering... more

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Sarah Palin: Pointing a loaded gun at the environment?

Greenpeace put it starkly: "Palin has the most anti-environment records of any... more

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That's Some Expensive Lipstick!!!!

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U.S. to limit oil development in polar bear habitat

The U.S. Interior Department will designate within two years protected areas of the Arctic that are considered critical habitat for polar bears and cannot be harmed by oil development as part of a legal settlement with environmental groups on Monday.

The Interior Department formally listed polar bears as threatened in May, but did not create protected areas for them.

Environmental groups said the threatened listing needed to be coupled with habitat designations to protect polar bears from spreading oil development or other industry impacts.

"You can't protect a species without protecting the place where it lives," said Kassie Siegel, a staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the three groups who sued the Bush administration to secure the designation.

"After global warming, oil development is the biggest threat to polar bears," said Siegel.

Oil companies, looking for untapped resources, are turning to the ice-filled waters of the Arctic as potentially lucrative areas for development. Environmentalists see oil development disturbing a delicate habitat for many Arctic wildlife.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council are still suing the government to have polar bears listed as "endangered," a more critical classification than the current "threatened" listing.

The groups are also seeking to force the Interior Department to mandate regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, which the environmentalists argue are the root cause of the polar bears' problems.

When it designated the bears as threatened, the Interior Department acknowledged that the rapidly warming Arctic climate has damaged polar bears' habitat and the species' chances to avoid extinction.

The partial settlement, filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, establishes a June 30, 2010, deadline for the critical habitat designation that was considered important to the species.

"We certainly intended to make a decision on critical habitat anyway," said Bruce Woods, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Alaska headquarters.

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Polar bears at risk increasing with offshore oil

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Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks

"The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears," according to... more

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Polar bears resort to cannibalism

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Knut's keeper found dead

Thomas Dörflein, the 44-year-old keeper who reared famous Berlin polar bear Knut,... more

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Sarah Palin: Ice queen of the Arctic | Environment | The Guardian

Sarah Palin, the Republican party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich area that has seen some of the most dramatic effects of climate change. So what's her record on environmental concerns?
Earlier this year, while writing a documentary on Kivalina, one of several Alaskan barrier-reef islands slipping into the sea, and among the world's worst ecological disasters, I stumbled on the state's 44-year-old governor Sarah Palin. Even then, as she posed in the snow-covered wilderness beside her seaplane and fresh animal kills, rumours swirled around her that she might be a vice-presidential contender. In an extraordinary twist of fate, this sharp-shooter and former small-town beauty queen, who until two years ago was mayor of her tiny hometown, Wasilla, Alaska, has become the American right's golden girl.

Ever since the Palin family soap drama hit prime time, the mainstream media has focused on digging up the dirt, but there have been few mentions about her environmental history. Palin is governor of a state that has seen the most dramatic effects of a warming world, yet until last week she remained unconvinced that climate change is in any way man-made. "The jury's still out on that one," she said, just days after the recent hurricanes and tropical storms were making their way across the Atlantic, offering a glimpse of the climate chaos that may be left for future generations.

Palin, in a recent interview with Newsmax.com, accepted that warming would affect Alaska "more than any other state, because of our location". But she added: "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade." Such a position would put her to the right even of President Bush and some of the oil companies - and it is now scaring the international community.

Last Friday, she finally conceded that the problem might be man-made. In an interview with ABC television, she said: "I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now."

Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, says: "The irony of a climate change denier being based in Alaska is breathtaking. The state is warming faster than practically anywhere else, with winter temperatures up by 6F since 1950. Visitors to Alaska can see the evidence all around, from drunken forests of semi-fallen trees and sunken roads, all unseated by the melting of the permafrost, to unprecedented forest fires."

For conservation and animal protection groups, Palin has long been considered an enemy. According to Greenpeace, "Palin has the most anti-environment records of any governor in the US. She has supported oil drilling in some of the most ecologically sensitive areas in Alaska, even when it meant sacrificing polar bears and beluga whales."

Only this month, Palin told the Republican party convention: "We Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas. And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska, we've got lots of both."

*Link to the rest of story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/17/poles.wildlifeSarah Palin, the Republican party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich... more

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Palin receives Rubber Dodo award from Centre for Biological Diversity |

Sarah Palin may have seen the light - sort of - on climate change but that did not... more

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Polar Bears Against Palin

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Cool Urban Polar Bear

Really does make a point. From the Environmental Defense Fund.

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Breaking news: House energy bill passes 236-189

The House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday lifting a longstanding... more

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Polar bears 'could become extinct' because of melting ice

Polar bears and other rare species are in danger of dying out, scientists fear, as... more

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