Will Steger: It's a poor time to exploit oil shale We are at a critical moment. As we burn fossil fuels, we are causing a buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, and our climate is very close to spinning out of control. Demand has outstripped supply of petroleum, causing inflation and… Minneapolis Star Tribune · (Registration Required)
U.S. to limit oil development in polar bear habitat ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department will designate within two years protected areas of the Arctic that are considered critical habitat for polar bears and cannot be harmed by oil development as part of a… Reuters · 10/6/2008
Medvedev: Russia Needs Arctic Resources for Future Other nations have made rival claims — and more geological tests are planned by both Russia and others. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, background, speaks at the Security Council in Moscow's Kremlin on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. (AP… ABC News · 10/3/2008
Sarah Palin: The view from Alaska Oct. 11, 2008 JUNEAU, Alaska — | I sat on the bank of the Kobuk River in northwest arctic Alaska on a mid-September morning. Upstream somewhere, wolves were howling — their chorus filling the silence, close enough that I could… Salon · 54 minutes ago
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Palin a 'disgrace to women' - Brigitte Bardot FRENCH film star-turned-activist Brigitte Bardot took a swipe at Sarah Palin today, saying the US vice presidential candidate was a disgrace to women. "I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world," Bardot… News.com.au · 10/7/2008
Big Oil's '2,000 acres' would be vast A tall tale from Big Oil has been floating around the media recently. Their mission is to make destroying pristine wilderness sound reasonable. They tell us: "We're only going to drill in 2,000 acres of the Arctic Refuge -- we… Bucyrus Telegraph Forum · 10/6/2008
Polar bears in Alaska tug-of-war Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Three hundred miles (480km) north of the Arctic Circle, Sam Leavitt drives his big truck along a snow-covered beach on the coast of Alaska, next to the Beaufort Sea. It is… BBC Americas · 10/7/2008
Conserving Energy Will Not Provide Additional Power or Solve… Conservation, efficiency and using oil we hold in reserve for emergencies does not get us more energy. Take, for example, that our country is in the midst of a famine - we don't have enough food. What are we to do? "Just eat a little… The Ledger · 10/4/2008
See polar bears from a cruise ship in the Norwegian … SPITSBERGEN, Norway -- The polar bear is 3 years old and hungry. "Ursus maritimus" has spent two years with his mother, and now on his own, he prowls the shoreline of an Arctic island, his fur the yellow-white of summer. He is… Detroit Free Press · 10/5/2008
Paraguay extends zero deforestation law, aims to cut… Paraguay announced it will implement a policy to cut net carbon emissions from land use change to zero by 2020, reports WWF. The move will extend the South American country's Zero Deforestation Law through December 2013. The legislation has… News.Mongabay · 4 hours ago
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