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Polar Bears on the Endangered Species List
The U.S. government has proposed listing polar bears as threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act because the animals' sea ice habitat is melting. Learn about polar bears, bookmark photos and videos, share your opinion...
The U.S. government has proposed listing polar bears as threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act because the animals' sea ice habitat is melting. Learn about polar bears, bookmark photos and videos, share your opinion about the proposal in the blog, or learn about the implications of adding Polar Bears to the list.
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Have extreme environmentalists "politicizing" the Polar Bear?
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Yes, but it's smart for environmentalists to get more press attention on important issues
Yes, but it's smart for environmentalists to get more press attention on important issues
In the following video, Gary Busey proposes an excellent idea for a startup: create a hair line for grizzlies and black bears so they'll be protected from hunters.
Calling all Polar Bears: Preregistration for the 8th Annual Polar Bear Plunge begins December 1. Wake up from hibernation, Polar Bears, and let’s take the plunge! The 8th annual Polar Bear Plunge will be held on January 2, 2010. Brave men, women and children from around the area will don costumes and [...]
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NPR fact-check of environmental protest group Plane Stupid's latest commercial featuring polar bears falling from the sky. [Warning: graphic.] This is not the only commercial that has people upset. Enter PeTA's "Grace" which several NBC affiliates predictably refused to air during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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A British environmental group has produced a video that shows falling polar bears slamming into the sides of buildings, onto the sidewalk or into the top of a parked car. The group, Plane Stupid, equates the weight of each bear, 400 kilograms, to the amount of greenhouse gases produced by an average European flight for each passenger it carries. Andrew Revkin, a New York Times reporter who covers the environment, looks at the facts.
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- Just 'Plane Stupid': Environmental Wackos Slaughter Polar Bears (jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com)
"The polar bear population is increasing, not decreasing."The original statment is correct about hunting area diminishing and your counter statement that "polar bear population is increasing, not decreasing" is disengenious. It is true that polar bear populations rebounded after over-hunting was restricted, but that situation has nothing to do with the threat polar bears now face: the loss of the sea ice habitat essential to their survival...
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- US Proposes Giving Polar Bears Historic Protection (goodnewsnetwork.org)
SEATTLE – In what would be the largest habitat zone ever established in the U.S. to protect a species from extinction, the federal government Thursday proposed designating 200,541 square miles on the coast of Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears. Officials said the designation is not likely to further slow the pace of oil and gas development, and it crucially would not impose any controls to slow the biggest threat to polar bears, the...
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- The value of protecting polar bear habitat (env-econ.net)
- Belief in Global Warming Drops; Obama Responds with Polar Bear Habitat (freerepublic.com)
- Feds Designate Polar Bear Habitat in Alaska (sci-tech-today.com)
Polar bears are some of the most high-profile victims of global warming. They’re irresistibly cute, and author Richard Ellis says they’ll disappear from the wild within a hundred years as irreversible warming destroys the polar ice caps. Ellis talks to host Guy Raz about his new book, On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear.
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Over 200,000 square miles (520,000 sq km) of Alaskan territory could be designated ‘critical habitat’ for polar bears, under new proposals from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This is the largest area ever proposed for such a designation by the FWS
If the land is designated as critical habitat any “destruction or adverse modification” of it will be prohibited under the Endangered Species Act. This would apply to oil and gas exploration...
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- Hugh Hewitt: The Endangered Species Act, Critical Habitat and Polar Bears (rss.townhall.com)
First we looked at an architect that wants to build a massive artificial mountain in the middle of Berlin. Now comes word that the St. Louis Zoo has decided to replace its polar bears with electronic replacements. Um, what?
The zoo's last polar bear was euthanized after zookeepers discovered that she had cancer. The polar bear before her died after wolfing down too much plastic and cloth, and the one before her died from an infection. So...
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From fastcompany.com
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This is what happens when your state economy is a one trick pony based on oil. Too bad the Republicans haven't weened themselves from oil and developed other parts of the economy. They're completely lacking in creativity but of course, it could also be their inability to see beyond petro-dollars from lobbyists. Because they're so limited, now they're ready to trounce over the environment to pay for their own failures.Alaska Gov. Sean...
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The Interior Department set aside 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off shore today on Thursdayto protect the threatened polar bear. The critical habitat designation is a requirement under the Endangered Species Act. Environmental groups are calling the proposal an
important step for protecting polar bears. But are concerned the federal government is still allowing [...]
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