Volga road trip: Silver Bears
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A Cold War bomber base lurks near the charming city of Saratov, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.
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With the opening of the 55th Berlinale, the international film festival here in Berlin, people will start buzzing about those cute little bears.
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes makes a gloomy prediction for Russia's car industry as he travels along the Volga river to sample everyday life in Russia.
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"So far, it can only crawl a little"  BERLIN - It's a girl! Maybe. Zoo officials in Nuremberg announced Wednesday that Germany's new polar bear cub is probably a female. via Detroit Free Press
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If you're looking for a change of scene this winter, try Switzerland, Turkey, or China.
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Travel: Simon Reeve discovers one of the world's great train journeys in Madagascar
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HELEN, Ga. - A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear. But the encounter last weekend proved fatal for the bear.
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PEREDELKINO, Russia -- The unpaved, unlit roads are clogged with traffic. Getting to and from work in the center of Moscow is a 90-minute crawl each way. The schools are lousy. There are no stores within walking distance. Local health-care facilities are primitive.
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CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman hits the highway with travel gadgets and an eye for the natural, scientific and quirky wonders of the Southwest.Photos: Road Trip gadget companions
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - A new movie showing young polar bears and walruses struggling toward adulthood in a melting Arctic puts a pair of charismatic faces on the global warming threat.
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Siberia's spectacular Lake Baikal, the deepest freshwater lake on the planet and an ecological wonder of the world, now has its own lakeside railroad to take tourists into its wilderness.
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Munching fishbrain bread from Finland,  chewing bull's testicles in Buenos Aires -- touring with the  rock band Franz Ferdinand can be a real culinary adventure.
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The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP.
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By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 6--BEAR VALLEY -- When five men determined to make Bear Valley a year-round resort destination rode the new Polar Express ski lift for the first time last month, they promptly tumbled off into the snow.
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Stephen Colbert was right about bears.
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About 3,000 polar bears live around the Arctic Barents Sea off northern Europe, according to a first census on Thursday that sets a benchmark to judge bears' vulnerability to pollution and melting ice.
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...