Inuits reject US environmentalists' bid to protect polar bear
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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.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, though staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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The indigenous peoples of the Arctic are told their culture will be threatened by climate warming.
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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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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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More than two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; including the entire population in Alaska &#151; because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
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The United States rejected Saturday a proposal by developing nations to clarify their responsibilities on controlling greenhouse gas emissions, further blocking agreement on a plan to launch negotiations for a new global warming pact.
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Arctic indigenous peoples urged the  United States on Friday to join other nations in cutting  greenhouse gas emissions to brake an accelerating thaw of the  polar ice.
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Nations with Arctic territory agreed to fight glacial melting but declined to endorse any new steps to counter global warming out of deference to the Bush administration.
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The United States and the seven other countries jointly expressed concern about changes in the Arctic climate, but they did not agree on a strategy to deal with them.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, although staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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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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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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(CP) - A Canadian-led international Inuit group is beginning legal procedures to convince a major international organization that global warming violates their human rights.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
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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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Environmentalists reject US claims that it is doing as much to curb global warming as Kyoto deal nations.