Government hears polar bear concerns
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Environmental activists, hunters and oil industry representatives spoke at a public hearing Monday night on whether the U.S. government should list polar bears as a threatened species.
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A five-week-old polar bear cub, which had to be taken away from its mother over fears it might be eaten, has been named after a public poll.
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Some say stricter measures endanger wildlife, but others argue those concerns are smokescreens for pro-immigrant sentiment
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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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Should zookeepers intervene when a mom wants to eat her offspring? That's the question being debated by Germany's polar bear lovers
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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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KAKTOVIK, Alaska, Aug. 31 -- Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made his first visit Thursday to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, center of a 25-year battle over whether to tap vast oil reserves under a coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea.
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Whitehall departments are undermining government attempts to encourage people to take climate change seriously, MPs say
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By SUE BAILEY  OTTAWA (CP) - Melting ice and Arctic health will get millions of dollars in federal funds Thursday as Ottawa kicks off International Polar Year.
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The government has welcomed a UN report on global warming as highlighting the real threat posed by climate change, and warned of a &quot;closing window of opportunity&quot; for taking action.
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Action is needed to protect British wildlife from the effects of a changing climate, a report says.
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the protections they can provide.
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Arctic peoples aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer most.
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The government has said that it is &quot;extremely concerned&quot; at the forced relocations of people in camps in Darfur over the past few days.
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Global warming could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century by eroding the sea ice that sustains them, according to the most comprehensive international assessment ever done of Arctic climate change.
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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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Science & environment: Sale of licences to drill for oil and gas rights in Alaska will threaten future of bears, experts warn