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Britain urged to stop supporting the trade in dead polar bears

2013-01-20 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Environmentalists including Chris Packham and Bear Grylls have urged Britain to drop its support for polar bear trading claiming that the UK's opposition to a ban has contributed to thousands of the animals being hunted for rugs, trophies and body-parts. Although the polar bear's survival is threatened by the melting of its Arctic sea-ice habitat, it is still legal to hunt the animals in Canada. Wealthy tourists from as far afield as China pay up to $20,000 to track and hunt the endangered...

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Judge tosses Alaska polar bear habitat designation

2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Anchorage Daily News: A federal judge in Alaska has thrown out a plan designating more than 187,000 square miles as habitat for threatened polar bears. U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline, in a written order dated Thursday, said the designation was too extensive and presented "a disconnect between the twin goals of protecting a cherished resource and allowing for growth and much needed economic development." He sent the matter back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to correct "substantive and procedural deficiencies."...

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Polar tech uncovers how frozen regions are changing

2013-01-03 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: SOMETIME this Antarctic summer, Sridhar Anandakrishnan will fly to the mouth of Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica. It's a dangerous place. "You get these monster crevasses," he says. "If your helicopter needed to set down, it's not a trivial matter." But glaciologists like Anandakrishnan need to take such risks to predict how much of the Antarctic ice sheet will end up in the ocean due to climate change. So he is developing "geoPebbles" - wireless, instrument-laden devices that can be scattered...

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