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Could climate change cost polar bears their white fur?
2013-03-18 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Anchorage Daily News: It's long been known that the brown bears found on islands in Southeast Alaska are more closely related to polar bears than other brown bears. Now scientists wonder if they're a harbinger of what's to come for polar bears in the warming high Arctic. Researcher Beth Shapiro of the University of California in Santa Cruz told the Canadian Press the bears on Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof islands (known as the ABC bears) appear to be descended from a polar bear population that got cut off from other...
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Close encounters with polar bears
2013-03-12 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: With the job of co-ordinating polar bear patrols in Alaska, biologist Mike Pederson is used to encounters with the predator. But one dark night when he was called out to investigate a sighting of a polar bear straying towards human homes, he had a very close shave indeed. He had to climb a ridge of sand to get to where the bear had last been seen, and when he got to the top he found it waiting on the other side. "I saw the black of its nose," he recalls. "And I just started running towards...
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Polar bear vote defeated at meeting
2013-03-07 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A proposal by the US to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated on Thursday at an international meeting. The result marks a victory for Canada's indigenous Inuit people over their bigger neighbour to the south. Delegates at the Cites meeting in Thailand rejected the proposal to change the bear's status from a species whose trade is regulated, not banned. A similar proposal was defeated three years ago at the last Cites meeting. The latest plan fell far short...
Polar bears: politics trumps precaution every time | Damian Carrington
2013-03-07 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It all comes down, once again, to our old friend the precautionary principle. And, once again, the world has told our old friend to get stuffed. The 178 nations who make up the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species summit in Bangkok were essentially asked this question: is the future threat to polar bears from the rapid melting of sea ice by global warming so great that the additional pressure of hunting for rugs should be outlawed? The US, allied with Russia, argued yes, absolutely. They...
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Canada: Bid to halt polar bear trade fails
2013-03-07 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The export of polar bear skins, teeth and paws from Canada will continue unabated after a bitter debate at the world's biggest wildlife summit ended in defeat for a US proposal to outlaw the trade. The US, strongly supported by former cold war foe Russia, had argued that while climate change and the increasing loss of the Arctic sea ice on which polar bears hunt was the greatest threat to the 20,000 remaining in the wild, hunting was an intolerable additional pressure. The US delegation leader...
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