Welcome to the Polar Bear Capital of the World

Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, is located on the shores of Hudson Bay, and was given the name “Polar Bear Capital of the World,” because it’s the largest concentration of polar bears in the world at one time. During the peak polar bear season in early October through November, more than 1,000 polar bears congregate around the [...]

Feb 11, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

Polar Bears and Global Warming

During the last two weeks, many news outlets have covered the fallout related to the electronic break-in and subsequent release of numerous private emails stored at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. The CRU is one of several storehouses of climatological information on global warming. According to those skeptical of [...]

Jan 09, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

More Risks for Polar Bears

The US Fish and Wildlife Service have delayed listing the polar bear as an endangered species, allowing oil and natural gas drilling to begin in the shores off Alaska. Despite legal efforts by Environmental groups 30 million acres of the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska have been auctioned to oil and gas companies [...]

Jan 08, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

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