Charismatic bears on thin ice
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As the Arctic heats up sooner than scientists anticipated, animals like the polar bear are losing ground.
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WOODSTOCK, Ill. -- The ranch house here where Marc Moxon and his family live is a sparkling winter wonderland: trees garlanded in glittering lights, illuminated plastic penguins, polar bears and other characters dotting the lawn, even a reindeer-drawn sleigh on the roof.
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The Great One hit town yesterday and he sure was welcome. He made it feel a bit more like winter. Wayne Gretzky was a pretty fair player in his day, and his time as an executive have been equally well spent.
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Bulls have holes in their shoes. Bears have holes in their arguments.
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A fragment of a bear skull in a Canadian museum may be rewriting the history of North America's brown bears.
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For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the protections they can provide.
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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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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 8--Jonn Graham doesn't wait for warm weather to chase smallmouth bass.   He fishes as long as the ice is off area rivers, including the Mackinaw and Vermilion.
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Travel: Bobbing about in a sea kayak among the seals of New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park can be a very calming experience, says Nick Taylor.
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Alfond Arena has always been a formidable place to play for foes of the University of Maine. During the squad's run to the NCAA title game in 2004, the Black Bears lost only once on home ice.
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ There's no denying that penguins _ those tuxedoed charmers with the happy feet _ are hot these days. But the flippered cinematic stars are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Global warming could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century by eroding the sea ice that sustains them, according to the most comprehensive international assessment ever done of Arctic climate change.
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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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Men have been responding with enthusiasm to this winterâs influx of fur.
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CALGARY, Alberta - A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.