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To Explore Strange New Worlds Polar bear ventures far inland, shot to death		31 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:28 PM on 31 Mar 2008 Having boldly gone where no polar bear has gone before, a 3-year-old female polar bear was shot dead 250 miles inland in Fort Yukon, Alaska, last week. Hunters who thought they were tracking a grizzly bear shot the polar bear in what they say was self-defense; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the shooting. Biologists don't know why the polar bear was so far inland. Any ...
Topics: Alaska, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

Missing in Auction Chukchi Sea oil lease auction goes ahead, polar-bear concerns ignored		06 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 6:17 AM on 06 Feb 2008 The U.S. Interior Department is auctioning off oil and gas leases on Wednesday to drill in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, despite opposition from environmentalists and some Democrats in Congress concerned about the impact on polar bears. The Chukchi Sea, off Alaska's northern coast, is prime polar-bear habitat and advocates worry that already-stressed bear populations will fare even ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, news, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Bear With Us Green groups sue over delay in polar-bear endangered-species decision		01 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:13 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Environmental and native groups have sued -- as they are wont to do -- in an attempt to force the Interior Department to rethink its decision to sell oil and gas leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, which is prime polar bear habitat. The lease sale by the department's Minerals Management Service is scheduled to go ahead next week; meanwhile, another agency in the department, the Fish a ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Crony Loves Chukchi Bush administration will offer oil leases in prime polar-bear habitat		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 02 Jan 2008 The U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service plans to offer offshore oil and gas drilling rights to 29.7 million acres of Alaska's Chukchi Sea. The area is home to one of two U.S. polar bear populations; interestingly enough, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- also a part of the Interior Department -- is within days of deciding whether to list the polar bea ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Oopsy Daisy Alaskan study says 2 million gallons of oil, seawater spilled over 10 years		13 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Oopsy Daisy Alaskan study says 2 million gallons of oil, seawater spilled over 10 years Did you hear about the 2-million-gallon spill in the Alaskan tundra? No, you didn't, because it happened slowly, from different sources, over the course of 10 years. A study by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation says spills on the North Slope between 1995 and 2005 included a 994,40 ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Who Speaks for the Eggman? U.S. green groups sue feds over polar bear, walrus protection		14 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Who Speaks for the Eggman? U.S. green groups sue feds over polar bear, walrus protection Two green groups have sued the feds for failing to protect polar bears and walruses (walri?) from the nasty combo of oil drilling and global warming. Pacific Environment and the Center for Biological Dive ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now		25 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now In good news for conservationists, the Department of Interior has announced willingness to exclude the sensitive Teshekpuk Lake wetlands from a region of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that it wants to open to oil and natural-gas drilling. The move has little to ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Unto the Lease of These Judge halts oil lease sale to protect Alaskan wetlands		08 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Unto the Lease of These Judge halts oil lease sale to protect Alaskan wetlands Ruling that the Bush administration failed to properly consider the impact of oil development on sensitive wetlands, a U.S. district judge has temporarily blocked an upcoming Alaska oil-lease sale of about 1.7 million acres. The Bushies had heard the call of up to 2 billion barrels of oil beneath the permaf ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling As only makes sense following a disaster in northern Alaska involving oil spills and corroded pipelines, the Bush administration next month plans to open 8 million northwestern Alaska acres to oil and natural gas development. The area, in the National Petroleum Reserve, co ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Let's Feed Them Some Oil Execs Hungry polar bears eating each other		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Let's Feed Them Some Oil Execs Hungry polar bears eating each other We can't think of anything funny to say about this: polar bears, deprived of their natural food by longer seasons without ice, may be turning to cannibalism. In the journal Polar Biology, American and Canadian scientists reviewed three cases of polar bear cannibalism in early 2004 in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. The kills included a mama ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

My Name Is Prince and I Am Gunky Exxon Valdez disaster still screwing up Prince William Sound		18 May 2006	Daily Grist
My Name Is Prince and I Am Gunky Exxon Valdez disaster still screwing up Prince William Sound Wildlife in Alaska's Prince William Sound is still threatened by oil spilled from the tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989. According to a new study by researchers at the National Marine Fisheries Service, some 100 tons of oil still pollute the sound shoreline and are potentially accessible to forag ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears		15 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears OK, we're trying to keep a positive outlook here, but ... drowning polar bears? Seriously? And just when therapy was starting to work. In September 2004 (the year the polar ice cap receded a record 160 miles from Alaska's north coast), federal researchers doing routine aerial surveys counted 10 bears swimming in the open ocean as far as 60 miles off Al ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Hunting Irony Alaskan wolves, bears hunted for hunting what the hunters want to hunt		05 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Hunting Irony Alaskan wolves, bears hunted for hunting what the hunters want to hunt These are not the best of times for Alaska's wolves and bears. A well-studied family of wolves in Denali National Park recently lost two senior females when they wandered outside park borders and were killed by trappers; a similar fate may befall the injured alpha male. Egged on by conservation groups, a trio of Democratic senators -- Barbara Boxer ...
Topics: Alaska, news, wildlife (all these topics)

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