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Could someone please keep Jim Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis away from cherished holiday classics? We’ve already had to endure Carrey mugging it up as the Grinch while Zemeckis turned “The Polar Express” into a bloated and freaky-looking theme park attraction, and now these two have gone and put the stink on Charles Dickens’ beloved “A Christmas Carol.”
The Obama administration on Thursday proposed setting aside 200,000 square miles off Alaska and along its shorelines as "critical habitat" for polar bears — an action that could add restrictions to future offshore drilling for oil and gas.
British explorers in northern Canada to measure the thickness of floating Arctic sea ice ended their expedition short of reaching the North Pole due to an early summer ice melt, the team said Thursday.
Belgium opened a new 20 million euro ($26 million) "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the continent to study climate change 42 years after closing its first base there.
Nuremberg's celebrity polar bear cub, Flocke, has a new friend: a Russian bear.
Germany's Nuremberg zoo says a 3-week-old polar bear cub has died just days after its twin.
Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said.
Critical Arctic sea ice this winter made a tenuous partial recovery from last summer's record melt, federal scientists said Tuesday. But that's an illusion, like a Hollywood movie set, scientist Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center said. The ice is very thin and vulnerable to heavy melting again this summer.
The Berlin zoo's polar bear, Knut — who garnered worldwide fame by being hand-raised by his keepers from a pint-sized fluffball to adulthood — now has company.
A wristwatch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after it floated ashore on the Faeroe Islands.
A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.
Polar bears are in jeopardy and need stronger government protection because of melting Arctic sea ice related to global warming, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.
The Earth is already shaking beneath melting ice as rising temperatures threaten to shrink polar glaciers and raise sea levels around the world.
Amid concerns that global warming is melting away the icy habitats where polar bears live, the federal government is reviewing whether they should be considered a threatened species.
Advocate on Ice :: Image Gallery & Video"I want people to realize that we're not just losing ice," he said. "If we lose ice, we stand to lose the ecosystem." ...he tries to bridge the gap between scientific research and the public, and to communicate the physical changes he's witnessing.
America the delusionalAt least a dozen people openly displaying everything from an AR-15 assault rifle to 9-millimeter Beretta sidearms were in the crowd outside the hall where Obama spoke in Arizona on Monday.
Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heatThe Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles of ice in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for possible record low polar ice cap.
Russia to bolster presence in energy-rich ArcticRussia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the Kremlin's point man for Arctic issues said Wednesday.
When you listen to Coast to Coast AM, a Premier Radio Network program hosted by George Noory, there's no telling what you're going to hear. One night it could be about a US government program where grown men stare at goats until they killed them.
I saw on one of the news channels today that putting the Polar Bears on the Endangered Species list was ineffective in protecting them from the global warming which is melting the artic ice because if the causative action happened outside the arctic, the law did not cover it.
Weekend deadline looms on polar bear ruleA decision involving the iconic polar bear could determine whether protecting endangered species might also help save the earth from global warming.
Poles apart but warming greater than thoughtA two year research effort by the world's leading scientists has uncovered more evidence of global warming's widespread and accelerating effect.
Chavez food reforms spark bitter rowThere is probably nothing more Venezuelan than an arepa. A flat-bread made from maize flour, it is the cornerstone of Venezuelan cuisine. The arepas are stuffed with meat or cheese and Venezuelans have eaten them morning, noon and night for generations.
Team Battles Arctic Winter, Hiking 600+ Miles to Measure Melting Ice CapIt could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap. More Articles
Hugo Chavez orders army to take over Venezuelan rice millsPresident Hugo Chávez has ordered the military to seize control of Venezuela's rice mills, in his first major broadside against the private sector since a decisive referendum win boosted his power two weeks ago
Chavez orders nationalization of Cargill Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday he had ordered the nationalization of at least some of the operations of the U.S.-based food giant Cargill and threatened to do the same with the Caracas-based food maker Polar.
Estimating the Barents Sea polar bear subpopulation sizeWith the challenge of a warmer Arctic climate and significant habitat loss, it is a serious concern that several of the 19 existing subpopulations of polar bears still do not have reliable population size estimates.
Berlin zookeeper's son cashes in on polar bearThe son of the late German zookeeper who nurtured celebrity polar bear cub Knut at Berlin zoo has raised nearly 7,000 euros ($9,748) by selling off his father's belongings on Internet auction site eBay.
Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 MillionScientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. More Articles
The 'Living Ancestor' of Octopuses | BBC NEWSMany of the world's deep-sea octopuses evolved from a common ancestor that still exists in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, a study has shown. More Articles
Mammals Facing Extinction Threat | BBC NEWSAt least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade. More Articles
Upside down rainbow caused by freak weather Freak atmospheric conditions rarely seen outside the polar regions have been credited with causing the formation of an "upside down rainbow".
Green polar bears puzzle zoo visitorsThree normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
Green polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitorsThree normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
Green polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitorsThree normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
Environmentalists can't corral PalinBefore she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.
Environmentalists can't corral PalinBefore she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.
Images of the Arctic Ocean as We Will Know ItWith the Arctic Ocean ice melting rapidly — in fact, this summer it's already at the second-lowest level on record, and still shrinking — it's time for us to start imagining what life will be like in the Arctic Circle when all the ice is gone.
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