Do polar bears need U.S. protection?
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A federal agency is poised to say whether global warming means the bear should be added to the 'threatened species' list.
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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.
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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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The United States will join with Australia and Madagascar in arguing that great white sharks need to be protected through new global trade restrictions.    The Bush administration supports protecting the sharks, which are listed as endangered in many parts of the world, said Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson...
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The United States will join with Australia and Madagascar in arguing that great white sharks need to be protected through new global trade restrictions.
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COMMENTARY  Recently, Mike Lake, a Canadian member of parliament from Edmonton, Alberta, agreed to introduce a petition that called for Bigfoot to be protected under the Canadian version of the endangered species act.   Lake presented to the House of Commons a petition that stated, &ldquo;The debate over (Bigfoot&rsquo;s) existence is moot in the circumstance of their tenuous hold on merely existing. Therefore, the petitioners request the House of Commons to establish immediate, comprehensive legislation to affect immediate protection of Bigfoot. ...
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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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Worried about security at the Republican National Convention? Rest easy: the Environmental Protection Agency is on the job. So are the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Postal Service. The Coast Guard too.
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Environmental activists, hunters and oil industry representatives spoke at a public hearing Monday night on whether the U.S. government should list polar bears as a threatened species.
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By JANE KAY San Francisco Chronicle  Penguins need protection as endangered species, group says   Penguins in the Southern Hemisphere need extra protection under U.S.
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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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Military families across America often endure hardship when a loved one ships out. But there are not many places in the U.S. where those left behind have to chop ice out of the tundra for drinking water and make sure the freezer is well-stocked with walrus and seal meat.
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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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TORONTO (CP) - Arctic governments must cut emissions of carbon dioxide immediately or face the extinction of species, damaging storms and flooding, says the World Wildlife Fund.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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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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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.