Posts Tagged ‘polar bear’
By NunoXEI • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Articles, Spotlight
Nuno Teixeira compiles a summary of some events that surrounded the polar bear controversy; the polar bear was the first species ever to be considered for a “threatened” listing in the ESA directly tied to the effects of global warming on its habitat. Controversy commences.
By NunoXEI • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Edward Helmore, Guardian–New research suggests the narwhal, the mysterious whale with a long spiral tusk, may be more at risk from climatic change due to the fact that it is so attuned to its environment, that it may be one of the least able of Arctic mammals to adapt to rapid warming in the high north.
By NunoXEI • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress–The Department of Interior lists the polar bear as “threatened” because of its melting polar sea ice habitat, but then do nothing to actually protect that polar habitat from its primary threat, greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion.
By NunoXEI • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Environmental groups cheered a Federal Court ruling today that forces the Bush administration to decide by mid-May whether polar bears deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act because of Arctic impacts from the warming climate.
By NunoXEI • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
The WWF report highlights that Canada is about to sell off a bear habitat on June 2nd to the oil company who supplies the highest bid; an imperative is laid at the state to issue guidelines for protecting the bears and their habitat even as the exploration goes on. Without it, they claim, the bears [...]
