Record Warm Winter Stirs Sleepy Estonian Bears
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Estonia's warmest winter for two centuries has woken some of its 600 bears several months early from hibernation, wildlife experts said on Friday.
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TROMSOE, Norway  - The world marked Environment Day on Tuesday with cheerful events like tree-planting and solar cooking in the heat of Asia, but also gloomier talk in the not-so-frozen north of melting polar caps.
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Linda J. Gormezano is using scat to track the wanderings, genetics and condition of polar bears, which have shown signs of stress recently.
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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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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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A Christmas tree carved from 30 tonnes of ice has been erected in Austria and officials hope it won't melt away during a record run of mild weather at the start of winter.
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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 28--BLOOMINGTON -- This February was the snowiest on record in Bloomington-Normal in more than a century.
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An unusually warm autumn in Germany is wreaking havoc in the normal behavior patterns of the country's wildlife, keeping birds from flying south for the winter and frogs from sleeping, experts have said.
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Female polar bears weigh nearly 150 pounds (65 kilograms) less on average than they did 25 years ago, because the ice on which they hunt is melting earlier, research shows.
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A Christmas tree carved from 30 tonnes of ice has been erected in Austria and officials hope it won't melt away during a record run of mild weather at the start of winter.Comment
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By Rhoda Amon, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 4--Never mind the groundhogs.   It's still winter, and it's cold inside for families and the elderly who have no heat.
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When bears wake early from hibernation, Australia suffers its worst drought in 100 years and multiple hurricanes hammer Florida should we believe The End is nigh?
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Someone is putting the scare into people walking trails at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks by laying down bogus bear tracks. "It's either a person or a circus bear with two left front feet walking on its hands," said state wildlife biologist Harry Reynolds.
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Knut, Berlin Zoo&#39;s celebrity polar bear cub, is growing from a cuddly ball of fur into a shaggy, powerful predator who could soon pose a serious threat to his devoted human keeper who has nursed him from birth.
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A brown bear kills one person and wounds several in the Transylvanian forests of Romania.
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Global warming is bringing more warmer-climate creatures to Finland, including moths that feast on human blood, according to nature researchers.
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Lifestyle: 3 January 2005, Monday. A gigantic rooster made of ice perched in the central square in Lithuania's capital Vilnius to celebrate the incoming New Year, which according to the Chinese calendar is the ...