In two critical reports released at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden on May 15th, the scientific expertise of the Wildlife Conservation Society helped inform an international body ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Russian explorers headed home Thursday after proving it is possible to drive from Russia to Canada across the North Pole, in buses with bloated tires over drifting ice, using a pickaxe to clear the way.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 16, 2013 4.1 / 5 (10) 1

In 2006 Berlin Zoo saw the birth of their first polar bear cub in 33 years. A retired circus polar bear gave birth to two cubs at the zoo. One of them died soon after, but Knut survived. At only a month old he became the ...

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot—and one that is becoming a security concern for the U.S. as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources and stake out unclaimed territories.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 11, 2013 4 / 5 (6) 0

(Phys.org) —A Purdue University-led team of researchers discovered sunlit snow to be the major source of atmospheric bromine in the Arctic, the key to unique chemical reactions that purge pollutants and ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Two Greenpeace activists dressed as polar bears boarded an oil platform in Norway on Wednesday to protest against Norwegian oil and gas group Statoil's planned drilling in the Arctic.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2013 3 / 5 (4) 1

(Phys.org) —Citizen-scientists around the world are poring through digital versions of 19th century logbooks of mariners who sailed from Pacific Northwest and California ports to explore the Arctic and ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 29, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

On March 1, in response to Alaska losing its appeal of the threatened-species designation for polar bears, state Rep. Eric Feige said the federal government itself was responsible for the deaths of many bears.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 1

One of the most southerly populations of polar bears in the world – and the best studied – is struggling to cope with climate-induced changes to sea ice, new research reveals. Based on over 10 years' ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

At the end of the last ice age, a population of polar bears was stranded by the receding ice on a few islands in southeastern Alaska. Male brown bears swam across to the islands from the Alaskan mainland and ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 14, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 0 |

A major meeting of governments on threats to endangered species on Thursday rejected a ban on international trade in polar bears amid fears it would distract from the bigger threat of global warming.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

A federal appeals court has rejected the state of Alaska's attempt to remove polar bears from the threatened species list.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 4

Biologists Jackie Grebmeier and Lee Cooper from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory have been visiting the chilly area north of Alaska near the Bering ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 21, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org)—Folmer Bokma, researcher at Umeå University, explains that living species have a limited ability to adapt to the environment. His results suggest that species do not change gradually, as the modern evolutionary ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 19, 2013 3.6 / 5 (11) 11 |

(Edmonton) A University of Alberta polar bear researcher along with eleven international co-authors are urging governments to start planning for rapid Arctic ecosystem change to deal with a climate change catastrophe for ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 04, 2013 3.7 / 5 (9) 78