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You Could Hear a Pinniped Drop Walruses should be threatened species, says litigious green group		28 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 28 May 2008 Having seen no action on a petition from last year, the Center for Biological Diversity says it will sue to force the U.S. Interior Department to consider listing the walrus as a threatened species. Walruses do all of their resting between foraging trips, breeding, and chillaxing on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing. And "[a]s the sea ice recedes, so ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Handle With Caribou Caribou numbers declining in Alaska and Canada		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:36 PM on 20 May 2008 Hello, and welcome back to The Plight of Arctic Wildlife. Previously we've covered polar bears, narwhals, seals, and walruses -- today we're going to tackle caribou. (Well, not literally.) After years of steady growth, Alaska's largest caribou herd lost 20 percent of its population between 2003 and 2007, according to the latest count. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd now numbers 377,000. Other her ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The Horn of a Dilemma Narwhals more at risk than polar bears, says study		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:10 PM on 25 Apr 2008 Polar bears get all the press, but climate change may be even harder on the narwhal, says new research. Narwhals, the whales whose long spiral tusks kick-started the myth of unicorns, top a list of 11 at-risk Arctic marine mammals published in the journal Ecological Applications. Hooded seals, bowhead whales, and walrus rounded out the top five, while ringed seals and bearded seals, which a ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

We Detect a Seal Change Feds to consider endangered-species protections for four species of Arctic seals		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 9:05 AM on 27 Mar 2008 Photo: noaa.gov The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it's considering whether to list four species of Arctic seals under the Endangered Species Act due in part to climate change. The Center for Biological Diversity, a species-advocacy group, petitioned the agency last year to consider protecting ribbon seals due to disappearing sea ic ...
Topics: Arctic, endangered species, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Ursine of the Times U.S. study says two-thirds of polar bears will be gone by 2050		10 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:52 AM on 10 Sep 2007 The U.S. Geological Survey released a grim study of polar bears on Friday, concluding that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone by 2050. Polar bears in Alaska and other areas outside the very far north will be most out of luck, according to the study; it forecasts that precisely zero polar bears will be left in Alaska by 2050. "Sea ice conditions would have to b ...
Topics: Arctic, news, polar bears, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Chagrin and Bear It Melting sea ice makes polar bears starve, drown		18 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Chagrin and Bear It Melting sea ice makes polar bears starve, drown Travel agents hawking trips to the Arctic have been boasting lately of an increased likelihood that tourists will see polar bears -- because starving bears are encroaching on human settlements to scavenge for food. Polar bears have traditionally used ice floes to hunt seals, their favored prey -- but Arctic ice, in case you hadn't heard, is m ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

Polar Apposites U.S.-Russia treaty will protect polar bears		19 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Polar Apposites U.S.-Russia treaty will protect polar bears A polar-bear-protecting treaty between the U.S. and Russia was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives this week. It would prohibit the possession, sale, and purchase of polar bears or parts thereof (ew!), and also set quotas on hunting by Native populations. Currently, Native Americans are allowed to hunt polar bears for subsist ...
Topics: Arctic, news, polar bears, Russia, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

King of the Ill Orcas top polar bears as most toxic Arctic mammals		12 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
King of the Ill Orcas top polar bears as most toxic Arctic mammals Orcas have officially surpassed polar bears as most toxic mammal in the Arctic. Wo0t! Researchers tested blubber samples and found them permeated with pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) -- highly persistent toxic chemicals also found in the breast milk of Inuit mothers -- and a flame retardant linked to nervous and reproductive disorders. ...
Topics: Arctic, news, oceans, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

A Dung Deal Toxic pollution in Arctic likely caused by contaminated bird poop		15 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
A Dung Deal Toxic pollution in Arctic likely caused by contaminated bird poop Native residents of northern Arctic regions are ridden with toxic chemicals -- some of the highest body concentrations in the world -- and new research has uncovered an unlikely culprit: guano, or as we prefer to call it, bird dookie. Scientists have long assumed that the industrial world's toxic effluents were carried northward on wind and water ...
Topics: Arctic, news, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Polar Distress Grizzly bears encroaching on polar bear habitat		16 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Polar Distress Grizzly bears encroaching on polar bear habitat Polar bears have been having a rough time of it lately, what with global warming melting their habitat and PCBs tainting their food sources. Now they've got a new problem to worry about: Grizzly bears have been spotted as far north as Canada's Melville Island, 600 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Scientists say the far-north grizzlies seem to be adapting ...
Topics: Arctic, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

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