Germany's Polar Bear Cub Quandary
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Should zookeepers intervene when a mom wants to eat her offspring? That's the question being debated by Germany's polar bear lovers
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Berlin's celebrity polar bear Knut has to move over again Â not only has his Nuremburg counterpart Flocke stolen photographers' attention, now puzzles, games and a soft toy in the image of the fluffy 2-month-old cub are ready for release.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Group of Eight leaders seeking to focus on climate change and Africa at their summit this week may find it hard not to be distracted by the Russian bear glowering in the room.
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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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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.
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Wolves have been protected by the European Union for almost two decades and are bouncing back all over Europe - like these two living in France.  By Charles Hawley SPREEWITZ, Germany (Der Spiegel) - Germany is hardly known as a country full of predators lurking in the forests. But for five years now, the wolf population has been establishing a solid foothold in the country...
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Global warming is more than just a theory to Germany's most famous winter resort, where a worrisome shortage of snow in recent decades has forced the Alpine village to reinvent itself.
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Berlin zoo's famous polar bear cub, Knut, has grown too large to keep performing with his keeper, the zoo says.
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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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European states showed reluctance to agree with the US description of what is taking place in the Sudanese Darfur as a genocide. A spokesman for the German foreign ministry Walter Lendner said that Berlin
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - 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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The Berlin zoo's polar bear, Knut Â who garnered worldwide fame by being hand-raised by his keepers from a pint-sized fluffball to adulthood Â now has company.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Reaction in Germany was hardly neutral when a prosecutor in Munich indicted 13 CIA officials last week for kidnapping a German of Lebanese descent and interrogating him in Afghanistan before apparently realizing they had the wrong man. Germans solidly backed the prosecutor.
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Polar bears, sea ice and global warming are taboo subjects, at least in public, for some U.S. scientists attending meetings abroad, environmental groups and a top federal wildlife official said on Thursday.
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Berlin Zoo's star polar bear cub Knut welcomed his millionth visitor Thursday, showing he hasn't lost his drawing power even if he's growing up.
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Rising temperatures in the Arctic will likely increase the region&#39;s biodiversity as new species are drawn to the extreme north, but in a dramatic paradox many animals unique to the region, such as polar bears, risk extinction.
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New evidence shows that polar bears are suffering from industrial chemicals swept to the Arctic from nations thousands of kilometres (miles) to the south, the WWF global conservation organisation said on Monday.