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Couple in Atlantic Canada feels lucky to be alive after polar bear encounter

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 16:18
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Carrie Dyson says both she and her husband are lucky to be alive after a “horrifying” close encounter with a

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

The garbage polar bears get into is getting into them

Katie Toth, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 10:10
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Aluminum foil. Car keys. Candy wrappers. Half a towel. If there was a Canada Food Guide for bears, none of

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

No charges against elder in Arctic Canada for killing polar bear and cub

CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 18, 2019 at 13:18 — Last Updated: Monday, February 18, 2019 at 13:25
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Nunavut’s Department of Environment won’t be charging an elder from Igloolik after he shot and killed a mother polar bear

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Environment Environment (Russia) General News Russia 

Bear ‘invasion’ in Arctic Russia: media too quick to blame climate change, experts say

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 10:42 — Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2019 at 15:02
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Photos and videos of the more than fifty polar bears walking around the houses in Belushaya Guba have gone viral

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Environment Environment (Russia) General News Russia 

Russian Arctic town overrun by polar bears

Chris Brown, CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 11, 2019 at 16:22 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 10:32
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People in Russia’s eastern Arctic are scrambling to come up with a plan to take back their community after it

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Scientists find hundreds of new toxins in blood of Canadian polar bears

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 7, 2018 at 11:06
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Hundreds of previously unknown contaminants were found in a new study of polar bear blood, published in a German chemical

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Communities in Canada’s east-Arctic say Inuit lives need to be protected over polar bear population

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 13:41 — Last Updated: Friday, November 16, 2018 at 13:02
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In communities along the west coast of Hudson Bay, Nunavummiut are both scared and angered by the increasing number of

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Archives – Dealing with problem polar bears in the Canadian Arctic

CBC Archives
Posted: Friday, October 19, 2018 at 16:23
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By the time the ice forms on Hudson Bay to take polar bears to the seal-rich feeding grounds to the

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Environment Environment (Norway) General News Norway 

Could drones help prevent polar bear attacks on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard?

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 15:20
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A polar bear shot dead after it attacked a crew member from a cruise ship on Svalbard this summer now

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Hunter in Nunavut, Canada calls for changes to polar bear rules after fatal summer attacks

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 24, 2018 at 11:41
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A hunter from Arviat, Nunavut (Canadian east-Arctic), says more and more polar bears are taking over traditional Inuit hunting grounds,

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Survivor in Northern Canada recalls deadly encounter with polar bears

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 11:50 — Last Updated: Friday, August 31, 2018 at 16:05
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A Nunavut hunter who survived a polar bear attack that killed one of his friends last week says the encounter

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Hunter in Nunavut, Canada killed by polar bear and cub

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 09:38 — Last Updated: Friday, August 31, 2018 at 14:53
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A man from Nunavut has been killed in a polar bear attack, according to officials. He was attacked by a

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

National Geographic polar bear apology proves colonialist attitudes towards Inuit remain, say northerners

Emily Blake, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 17, 2018 at 10:01 — Last Updated: Friday, August 17, 2018 at 10:21
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One year after a controversial video that linked an emaciated polar bear to climate change, National Geographic has published an

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Environment Environment (USA) General News USA 

Opponents skeptical as U.S. Gov claims seismic survey will have “insignificant” impact in ANWR

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, July 30, 2018 at 15:20 — Last Updated: Monday, July 30, 2018 at 15:34
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The first sign of oil development in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is likely to be a 3D seismic survey. A

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Environment Environment (Norway) General News Norway 

Polar bear shot dead after attacking person on Svalbard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, July 30, 2018 at 10:13
1 Comment

The bear attacked a person from a cruise vessel on Sjuøyene north of Nordaustlandet, in Svalbard. The attack happened Saturday

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