It was 1992 in the remote village of Point Lay, Alaska. The Inupiat community numbered less than 100 people back then. Located on the edge of the Chukchi Sea, 230 miles north of the Arctic Circle, ...
But Taylor, point man on polar bears in Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration, argues that the scientific justification simply isn't there — at least not yet — to declare the polar bear "threatened ...
Polar bears cranberry and Kova have long been favorites at the Alaska Zoo. Best buddies, they share an enclosure filled with toys and treats and *** large pool where Kova in particular likes to take ...
Recovering walrus populations, helped by a 1950 hunting ban, are also providing food. Other polar bear populations, such as in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, are declining, and they may be stable or ...
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Some polar bears have been getting chunkier—despite losing their main hunting grounds to climate change
Arctic temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than those in the rest of the world, resulting in the loss of sea ice ...
Some might call it fate. Just one day after the zoo in Louisville, Kentucky opened a brand new polar bear exhibit with room for new bears, oil field workers thousands of miles away in Alaska ...
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