Polar bears put Alaska oil development on thin ice
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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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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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Some arctic animals including polar bears and species of seal face the possibility of extinction in just decades because of global warming, the World Wide Fund for Nature said Sunday.
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Citing a need for domestic energy, the government plans to open for exploratory drilling thousands of acres on Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades because of migratory birds and caribou.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where  a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days,  needs the type of environmental protections that are given to  better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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EDMONTON -- Global warming is happening twice as fast in the Arctic as anywhere else and could cause everything from the extinction of polar bears to the flooding of large parts of Florida, says a report released yesterday.
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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
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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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On a cloudy day in  the Chukchi Sea near Alaska's northwestern coast, two marine  biologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological  Institute pulled up a small crab that could be proof the Arctic  is growing warmer.
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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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Global warming is heating the Arctic at a rapid pace - with impacts that could range from the disappearance of polar bears&#39; summer habitat by the century&#39;s end to a damaging rise in sea levels worldwide.
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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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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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By BOB WEBER  (CP) - Three remote northern communities are anticipating word from the federal government that would help protect great swaths of the Western Arctic - including areas of intense interest to resource companies.
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By JAIME ESPANTALEON  OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground on a remote Antarctic island leaked 130 to 200 gallons of diesel oil in the fragile environment, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Friday.
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New mapping data could bolster any claims the U.S. might make in the Arctic as nations in the region compete for potentially rich reserves of oil, gas and minerals buried beneath the sea floor, federal scientists said Monday.