The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
The bear fact is that hibernating ursines don't lose bone mass even though they're inactive for months. Could human bones be taught this trick?
... learning that may be independent of close relatives, or as a habit that is acquired in isolation from other bears. Specifically, the study identified the mothers of nine of the bears in the study, of ...
... validated. In essence, they give no scientific basis for deciding one way or the other about the polar bear.”
Prof. Armstrong and colleagues originally undertook their audit at the request of the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming, officials said Wednesday....
... potent inhibitor of protein degradation, hibernating bears do not lose muscle mass after long ... known to the scientific community -- the fact that hibernating bears do not lose muscle tissue, only fat ...
... groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials' refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species ...
The state of Alaska will sue to challenge the recent listing of polar bears as a threatened species, arguing that there is not enough evidence to support the listing.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Two conservation groups plan to sue to protect polar bears from petroleum exploration and drilling off Alaska's coast....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially ...
A polar bear has been discovered on Iceland, which is hundreds of kilometres from the threatened species' natural habitat, a local photographer said Tuesday.
... Arctic ice predicted to shrink to another record low this summer, the threat to the polar bear population is increasing, scientists say. But at least on expert believes evolution - or in this case, ...
... groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast.
No animal in Europe is cuter than polar bear Knut — or has generated more cash for a zoo. Now there's a legal fight over all those millions.
An intruder who broke into a Colorado Springs electronics store won't face any charges, even if authorities can find the culprit. Seems no one wants to poke an angry bear.
