Polar Bear

Paul Nicklen's Polar Obsession Photos

Posted 11.12.2009 | Green


Renowned National Geographic extreme photojournalist Paul Nicklen has released a new book titled Polar Obsession, which chronicles his expedition unde...

Amazing Camouflage Animals (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.11.2009 | Green


How cool would it be to blend into the background sometimes? These animals use their powers of camouflage to catch prey, to hide from predators, and t...

Polar Bear Cub Hitches A Ride

BBC | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green


Arctic waters are at best chilly and at worst close to freezing...Which may explain why a polar bear cub has recently been seen riding on the back of ...

Polar Bear Beats The Heat With An Icy Treat (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green


A male polar bear Yukio tries to eat vegetables inside a block of ice presented to promote the German polar bear film 'Knut und seine Freunde' and to ...

Climate Change Decision in 11 Days: Ostrich or Hawk

Edward Humes | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green


Edward Humes

In the next 11 days, President Obama must make a decision that will say a great deal about how America addresses -- or fails to address -- the threat of global warming in the years to come.

Greening Hollywood: On Earth Worshipping and Going Pagan

Paige Donner | Posted 05.20.2009 | Green


Paige Donner

You know that something's changing when Earth Day begins to morph into Earth Week with accompanying celebrations akin to High Holy Week.

WATCH: A History of the Polar Bear in 20 Seconds

Lee Camp | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy


Lee Camp

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Bag A Polar Bear For $35,000: The New Threat To The Species

The Independent | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green


Boyd Warner treasures the memory of killing his first polar bear. It was 2003. For days he had stalked his prey on the frozen wastelands north of Pond...

Summit To Save Polar Bear From Extinction Starts In Norway

The Independent | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green


A limit on the hunting of polar bears by sportsmen and native Arctic people will top the agenda at an international summit in Norway tomorrow, seen as...

Less than Wireless -- and Loving It

Steven Crandell | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living


Steven Crandell

The clumsy man's cellphone wasn't so resilient. It was dead. It took him 10 days to get another cellphone. And in that time, a strange thing happened. He found he enjoyed living without a cellphone.

POLAR BEAR ATTACK!

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.09.2009 | Comedy


Polar bear attack in Churchill, Manitoba. How did this man survive such a brutal mauling? For more about polar bears, click here. (via Naked Capi...

Nine Polar Bears Make Risky, Open-Ocean Swims In One Day

AP | Dan Joling | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green


Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska's northwest coast, an increase from previous surveys that may indicate war...

Companies Get OK To Annoy Polar Bears

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil...

Polar Bear Declared A Threatened Species

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living


WASHINGTON — The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cauti...