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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway 

Polar bear kills Dutch citizen on Norway’s remote Svalbard Islands

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2020 at 12:57
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A polar bear attacked a camping site Friday in Norway’s remote Svalbard Islands, killing a 38-year-old Dutch man before being

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

ICE BLOG – Not “if” but “when”: Polar bears at risk of disappearing in 80 years

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 12:39 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 12:42
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Rapid emissions cuts could still ensure their long-term survival. Otherwise, some Arctic regions seem set to lose polar bears by

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Environment Environment (Russia) Russia 

Scientists raise alarm about polar bears’ plastic consumption in Arctic Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 16:50
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Plastic waste makes up a quarter of the diet for polar bears, says Ivan Mizin, research director of Russian Arctic

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General News Russia Society Society (Russia) 

Russia’s Rosneft gives oil barrel-looking toys to zoo-enclosed polar bears

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 19, 2019 at 13:57 — Last Updated: Monday, July 22, 2019 at 09:47
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The plastic plaything is aimed to prevent the animals from going nuts in captivity. You might have seen one in

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Which marine mammal is most vulnerable to Arctic vessels?

Emily Blake, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 10:39
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As the open-water season becomes longer in the Arctic, little is known about how increasing vessel traffic affects marine mammals,

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Blog: About that bear – Why the media keeps getting the Arctic wrong

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, December 15, 2017 at 10:02
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You’ve all seen it by now: the viral video of an emaciated polar bear on Baffin Island posted by National

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ARCTIC COUNCIL 2017 Culture Culture (Finland) Finland General 

Finland’s foreign policy includes adorable Arctic emojis

Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, May 12, 2017 at 17:43 — Last Updated: Friday, May 12, 2017 at 18:41
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FAIRBANKS — Searching for a cute, wry or funny way to text about the Arctic? The Finnish government is on

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General Science Science (Canada) 

Polar bears forced to swim long distances as Arctic ice melts

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 20:11 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:25
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Scientists are sounding the alarm over the discovery that many polar bears in the Canadian Arctic are making marathon swims of

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A male polar bear in the Beaufort Sea in 2005. (Steven C. Amstrup/USGS/AP)
Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Grim outlook for Arctic wildlife in oil spill

Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 15:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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In the event of a large oil spill in Alaska’s Arctic, officials say they would have limited ability to clean oiled

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