Polar bears threatened by drilling
627651
Science & environment: Sale of licences to drill for oil and gas rights in Alaska will threaten future of bears, experts warn
198808
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.
458373
SEATTLE -- As the Bush administration debates much of the world about what to do about global warming, butterflies and ski-lift operators, polar bears and hydroelectric planners are on the move.
93299
Lease sales could produce 15 billion barrels of oil, but environmentalists say drilling would threaten already melting habitat.
634261
Russian geologists say they have data that would support a claim to a huge energy-rich area in the Arctic.
311472
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Â Frustrated by a lack of regulations limiting global warming, a conservation group wants ribbon seals listed as threatened or endangered because their habitat Â sea ice Â is disappearing amid climate change.
54964
Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone by mid-century, a US government agency reports.
25786
Eskimos in the Arctic are worried about changes in the wildlife resulting from climate change and the gradual increase in contaminants.
130740
SYDNEY -- Australian bathers have become ensnared in an environmental tangle -- the nets that protect them from sharks pose a threat to a growing whale population. Save the whales, demand some wildlife campaigners. Save the humans, counters the government.
9906
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.
434971
The conservation agency World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, has warned that man-made chemicals pose a serious threat to polar bears. The WWF says three new scientific studies show
67210
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will study whether a rare Utah cactus should be protected as an endangered species, a move that could affect oil drilling in the state's Uinta Basin.
81761
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.
382456
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.
257496
LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard  - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.
128016
Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.
455701
Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods