Polar Bears May Face Demise
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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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IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - Inuit hunters will be able to kill nearly one-third more polar bears in Nunavut this year because of concerns that an increasing number of the predators are prowling the streets of some Arctic communities.
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OSLO, Norway  - Ideal for an Ice Age, white fur  used as camouflage by animals from polar bears to Arctic foxes  may be going out of fashion because of global warming.
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As the Arctic heats up sooner than scientists anticipated, animals like the polar bear are losing ground.
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Frogs, butterflies, polar bears, and penguins are dying out from climate change much faster than researchers had previously expected, a new study shows.
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Global warming is heating the Arctic  almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that  threatens millions of livelihoods and could wipe out polar  bears by 2100, an eight-nation report said on Monday.
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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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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction Â and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday.
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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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ENDANGERED: Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; and the entire population gone from Alaska, scientists projected Friday.
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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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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - Ever wonder what it must be like to be a polar bear living in a region threatened by climate change?
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The government plans to delay its decision to put the polar bear on the endangered list until after it leases 30 million acres near Alaska for oil and gas drilling. What gives?
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Shrinking polar ice caps will cause at least two-thirds of the worldâs polar bears to disappear by 2050, government scientists reported on Friday.
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Three conservation groups notified the federal government Wednesday they intend to sue to get polar bears listed as a threatened species due to global warming.
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Heathland species are in danger of extinction because of poor habitat, conservationists warn.