polar bears

Biden Admin. Sued for Giving Big Oil Green Light to Harass Polar Bears, Walruses

Biden Admin. Sued for Giving Big Oil Green Light to Harass Polar Bears, Walruses

By Jessica Corbett A coalition of conservation groups sued the Biden administration on Thursday over the U.S. Department of the Interior’s recent rule allowing fossil fuel companies to harass polar bears and walruses while searching and drilling for oil and gas in the Southern Beaufort Sea. Announced last month by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]

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    Spray-Painted Polar Bear Shocks and Worries Wildlife Experts

    Spray-Painted Polar Bear Shocks and Worries Wildlife Experts

    A video of a polar bear wandering around the Russian Arctic spray-painted with large numbers and letters has baffled and worried wildlife experts. The footage, shared on Facebook Sunday by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) worker Sergey Kavry, shows the bear walk by with “T-34” sprayed in large black letters on its right side. The T-34 […]

    Trump Admin: There’s No ‘Climate Crisis,’ So Drill Baby Drill

    Trump Admin: There’s No ‘Climate Crisis,’ So Drill Baby Drill

    The Trump administration has asserted that “there is not a climate crisis” as justification for expanding drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. E&E first reported Monday that the Bureau of Land Management’s Environmental Impact Statement for expanded drilling in Alaska, released last month, contains stark denier language tucked into the vast appendix, where BLM […]

    Russian Military Responding to Polar Bear Invasion in Arctic Town

    Russian Military Responding to Polar Bear Invasion in Arctic Town

    The Russian military is taking measures to protect the residents of a remote Arctic settlement from a mass of polar bears, German press agency DPA reported. The move comes after regional authorities declared a state of emergency over the weekend after sightings of more than 50 bears in the town of Belushya Guba since December. […]

    Top Wildlife Photographs Include Heartbreaking Polar Bear, Heartwarming Lions

    Top Wildlife Photographs Include Heartbreaking Polar Bear, Heartwarming Lions

    The Natural History Museum in London announced on Wednesday the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year: LUMIX People’s Choice Award. After counting 16,000 votes from nature fans, wildlife photographer David Lloyd’s shot of a pair of nuzzling Serengeti lions, called Bond of Brothers, was crowned the top image. “I’m so pleased that this […]

    Russian Polar Bear ‘Invasion’ Is a Sign of Something Much Bigger

    Russian Polar Bear ‘Invasion’ Is a Sign of Something Much Bigger

    Authorities in northern Russia’s Novaya Zemlya islands declared a state of emergency this weekend after a “mass invasion” of polar bears in the settlement of Belushya Guba, the BBC reported. Media reports and video footage show the bears eating garbage, appearing near school grounds and entering buildings and residential homes. https://twitter.com/PeterMurtagh/statuses/1094536487692103681 Officials said they’ve never […]

    Arctic Refuge Oil Surveys Put Polar Bears in the Crosshairs

    Arctic Refuge Oil Surveys Put Polar Bears in the Crosshairs

    By Rebecca Bowe Send an army of industry workers into remote polar bear territory in the dead of winter, and things are not going to end well. Yet that’s just what the Trump administration would open the door to as it prepares for oil and gas drilling and moves to authorize seismic testing, a precursor […]

    These Eye-Opening Memes Show the Real 10-Year Challenge

    These Eye-Opening Memes Show the Real 10-Year Challenge

    Before-and-after photos of your friends have probably taken over your Facebook and Instagram feeds, but environmentalists are using the #10YearChallenge to insert a dose of truth. Memes of shrinking glaciers, emaciated polar bears and coral bleaching certainly subvert the feel-good viral sensation, but these jarring images really show our planet in a worrying state of […]