Marine Mammal Alliance Urges Action to Help Protect Polar Bears
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA) is encouraging the U.S. government and the public to act now to protect polar bears from the life-threatening effects of melting sea ice in the arctic. In a letter to the U.S.
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Arctic nations said changes in the world&#39;s polar regions are a concern but they fell short of committing to specific actions to slow down or adapt to warming.
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Officials from 75 nations are set for talks critical to whale conservation amid political pressure to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle giants.
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Federal officials said Monday that they will need a few more weeks to decide whether polar bears need protection under the Endangered Species Act because of global warming.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - 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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REYKJAVIK: Arctic people aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer the most.
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Environmental groups call on Australia to classify the Coral Sea as a marine park to ward off illegal shark fishermen.
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Officials from 75 nations begin on Monday talks critical to whale conservation amid political pressure to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle giants.
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Global warming and disappearing sea ice in the Southern Ocean are causing food shortages that could threaten Antarctic whales, seals and penguins, scientists said Wednesday.
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A leading environmental group called Friday for protection for the great white shark and humphead wrasse coral fish, whose numbers have plunged because of overfishing and China&#39;s growing appetite for exotic foods.
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ENDANGERED: Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; and the entire population gone from Alaska, scientists projected Friday.
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Environmentalists urged fishing nations Thursday to do more to protect the rare Patagonian toothfish, dubbed the "white gold" of the sea which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching.
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Wildlife experts from around 60 countries gathered in Scotland Monday to push for an agreement to help save rare, migratory birds of prey.
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Militant environmental activists on Saturday vowed to increase their presence in the Southern Ocean next year in their bid to prevent Japanese whalers from killing the giant mammals.
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BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their
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A marked decline in sea ice off Alaska's coast is not enough to take the drastic step of listing polar bears &#151; a species dependent on ice &#151; as threatened, critics said Thursday at the first of three public hearings on the proposal.
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Leaders of Canada's Inuit community opposed efforts by US environmentalists to put polar bears on the endangered species list, warning that hunting restrictions would hurt their livelihood.