Doomsday is knocking. What are you doing?

Reporting at their 31st annual end-of-winter survey, US-based organizations National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), stated that over 90 percent of...

Five countries list the polar bear as threatened

Five countries, the United States, Norway, Canada, Russia and Denmark, have all come together to list the polar bear as threatened by climte change. They say this is the longest term threat to the bears. ...

2009 Polar Bear Swims across the US and Canada today

As part of a New Years Day tradition across the United States and Canada, thousands of people will be battling their hangovers to plunge into icy waters, swim out to a designated point, and then swim back to the...

Swedish Zoo May Adopt Berlin Bear Knut

The face of Berlin's zoo, Knut, the famous polar bear that was raised in captivity and who is at the heart of a renewed interest and funding in the Berlin Zoo may be making his way to Sweden. The 1999 agreement...

Polar bear hunt to continue

105 polar bears will still be able to be killed by hunters in Nunavut's Baffin Bay as the environment minister has agreed to leave the quota the same, despite the fact that the bears are endangered species ...

WEATHERAmerica Newsletter, Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 6:55 P.M. CT

WEATHER HAZARDS (During The Next 24 Hours)SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK(potential for tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail within the next 24 hours)Some Thunderstorms May APPROACH Severe LimitsS FLHEAVY RAINFALL...

Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks

Arctic sea ice is even lower than what was projected to be the lowest at the moment, and the polar bears are suffering the most from this change.Some are even resorting to cannibalism it has been found."Scientists...

Arctic To Be Free Of Ice In Five Years

In the summer of 2013 the Arctic could be completely free of ice. In winter the ice will reform, as it does now, but with shorter milder winters the Arctic and the world is in big trouble. ...

Pink Floyd Receives Polar Prize from King of Sweden

Not to be confused with Canada's Polaris Music Prize, seminal laser-light rock band Pink Floyd have received the prestigious and well-paying Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, Sweden "for their 'monumental...