United States

Polar Bear Habitat Proposed for Alaska

The Interior Department proposed to designate more than 200,000 square miles of land, sea and ice along the northern coast of Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears.

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Polar Bear Habitat Proposed for Alaska Coast

The Interior Department proposed to designate more than 200,000 square miles of land, sea and ice along the northern coast of Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears.

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Andrew Wetzler: In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat

It’s been a good couple of weeks for polar bears.  First, the Department of the Interior announced that it would propose tighter international regulations of polar bear trophy hunting and trade under international law and, today, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to designate 2 ...

Andrew Wetzler: In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat

It’s been a good couple of weeks for polar bears.  First, the Department of the Interior announced that it would propose tighter international regulations of polar bear trophy hunting and trade under international law and, today, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to designate 2 ...

U.S. Proposes Plan to Protect Critical Polar Bear Habitat in Alaska

The Obama administration today announced a new plan to designate more than 200,000 square miles of Alaskan territory as "critical habitat" for polar bears, a threatened species that has become to global warming what canaries once were to coal mines: the visible early warning of pending disaster.

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