Endangered polar bears on thin ice
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Unless urgent action is taken to slow down global warming polar bears will be extinct by the end of the century. The stark warning is contained in an authoritative report compiled by more than 250 scientists on the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday claiming marine mammal regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of oil and gas exploration and global warming.
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Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africaâs tip, the African penguin, the continentâs only native penguin, are endangered.
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PARIS, Sept. 15 -- Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.
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South African officials have built a housing development of fibreglass igloos for a colony of endangered penguins, hoping to replicate natural nesting grounds damaged by environmental degradation.
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Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone by mid-century, a US government agency reports.
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A new movie showing  young polar bears and walruses struggling toward adulthood in a  melting Arctic puts a pair of charismatic faces on the global  warming threat.
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A new contrarian report on polar bears and global warming in the Arctic has been released by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. As you'd expect, it's a selective hodgepodge of science and politics. There are useful summaries and links of research challenging some of the media hype about the Arctic, but some [...].
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Polar bears could be decades from extinction, a survey into global warming has found. Steve Connor reports on the crisis that threatens the polar ice-cap.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - Ever wonder what it must be like to be a polar bear living in a region threatened by climate change?
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New evidence shows that polar bears are suffering from industrial chemicals swept to the Arctic from nations thousands of kilometres (miles) to the south, the WWF global conservation organisation said on Monday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope.
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Kids as penguins interact with flightless avatars in a virtual arctic world. By Dawn Margolis from Wired magazine.
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Until now, the Alaskan oil  industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but  proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as  endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil  development on Alaska's North Slope.
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday, claiming regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of energy exploration and global warming.  The groups say the U.S.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory -- Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures.
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Two-thirds of the world's population of polar bears could die out over the next 50 years, as warmer weather melts away the thick sheets of sea ice where the bears spend much of their lives, according to studies released yesterday by the U.S. Geological Survey.