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Grizzlies and polar bears are mating alarming reason

2016-05-25 13:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Villages Suntimes: So for now, scientists are taking the lead from media reports and calling hybrid bears with a polar bear father a "pizzly" and one with a grizzly bear father a "grolar". Female grizzlies tend not to stray far from their home ranges, and male polar bears don't usually creep into grizzly habitats. Unfortunately, as the breeding between the two bears becomes more common, it is likely that the polar bear will lose out on genetic diversity. Hybrids are known either as a grolar or a pizzly, depending...

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Brown new white as polar bear gives keepers pause thought

2016-05-20 02:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Press Association: Keepers at a wildlife park were left scratching their heads when what looked like a brown bear turned up in the polar bear enclosure. But, on closer inspection, they found their female polar bear had disguised her white fur under a thick layer of mud, leaving her barely recognisable. Vickie Larkin, head carnivore keeper at Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie, said: "The keepers had quite a good laugh when we discovered her. Highland Wildlife Park keepers...

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United States: Polar bear is shot by Inuit hunters on the icy coast of Alaska

2016-05-20 01:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Mail: A polar bear is shot by native hunters as it comes ashore to feast on the bloody carcass of a giant whale during brutal footage. The magnificent hunter becomes the hunted as it is drawn by the sight and smell of the whale, strewn across the Arctic coast of Alaska. Armed with rifles, the hunters fire off a number of shots at the apex predator, before it walks onto the shore and gnaws on the whale's flesh. Then, after his friends have ran off to safety, one gunman approaches, takes aim and...

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Sierra Nevada Corporation Awarded Contract To Support Exelis On NASA's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 Mission

2016-05-13 05:50:24| rfglobalnet Home Page

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems was competitively selected by Exelis Geospatial Systems to develop and build the Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI) Azimuth Rotation Module (ARM) for the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) mission. Exelis is the prime contractor to NASA for the RBI.

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