Polar Bears
What is the world's largest bear? The polar bear is generally considered the largest bear in the world. With average weight of 900 to 1500 pounds, the polar bear is the world's largest species of bear. The brown bear, averaging 500 to 900 pounds a close second. The biggest polar bear ever recorded was shot in Alaska in 1960 weighing a grizzly 2,210 pounds (1002 kilograms) and 11 feet 11 inches in height. The articles enlisted herein provide interesting polar bear facts and information on how global warming is a threat to the very existence of polar bears.
Polar Bears and Global Warming
The Polar Bears are becoming an endangered species since the glaciers are melting as a result of Global Warming. So here is an article which discusses if there is any way to save the largest land carnivore.
Animal Rights Activists Say Baby Polar Bear Should Be Killed
An adorable three-month-old bundle of white fur is the focus of a heated battle of words between zookeepers who are raising him and animal rights activists, who say little Knut should be euthanized instead of being raised by humans.
Hundreds of People Join Polar Bear Club Members in Icy Splash
The annual cold-water swim by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club attracted a huge crowd of people who joined the members of the club as the plunged into the cold ocean waters to raise money for charity.
Polar Bears - facts about polar bear
Every creature on this earth adapts itself according to the environment around them. Some live in very hot climate while others live in very cold climate and those with intermediate climate. God has provided all its creatures with some sort of in built features which make them able to withstand these extreme conditions. One such animal is polar bear.
Zoo Condemned Over Deaths of Polar Bear Cubs
Nuremberg zoo refused demands to rear vulnerable cubs who were apparently eaten by their mother
Row Erupts Over Risk to Polar Bears
One of the most controversial voices in the global warming debate believes too much emphasis is put on extinction fears for ecology's poster animals.
Famed Polar Bear Cub Gets Death Threat
Security guards were called in to protect the prized baby polar bear, Knut, yesterday, after Berlin zoo received a threat warning that the celebrity cub was about to die.
Bush Backtracks on Global Warming With Plan to Protect Polar Bears
Melting arctic ice prompts climate change concession- Campaigners hope to force cuts in carbon emissions
Hunter Kills the World's Rarest Bear
DNA tests of a bear, shot in the Northwest Territories of Canada, showed last week it was a hybrid of polar bear and a grizzly - perhaps the first ever seen in the wild.
Buy the Right Car, Save a Polar Bear
A recent series of news stories suggests that polar ice caps are melting faster than expected, and that this phenomenon may result in the extinction of one of humanity’s favorite animals, the polar bear.
Mass Extinction Rate 'faster Than Dinosaurs'
Polar bears and hippos have joined the ranks of threatened species, along with a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals and coniferous plants, according to the World Conservation Union.
Polar Bears Living on Thin Ice After Record Temperatures
This could be the hottest year ever recorded, posing a threat to Arctic wildlife including polar bears, ice-dwelling seals and several forms of vegetation, according to UN scientists collating data from across the world.
Mummy Polar Bear and Baby Polar Bear
A Mummy polar bear and a Baby polar bear are sitting on and iceberg . . .
Bear facts
A polar bear cub that was rescued after its mother was killed by hunters has made headlines across Canada, but global warming means that other members of his species may not be so lucky, writes Anne McIlroy
Polar bears
Scientists fear polar bears will be extinct in the wild within 60 years. Mark Oliver looks at the threat and finds plenty of polar bear lovers online.
Nuremberg zoo refused demands to rear vulnerable cubs who were apparently eaten by their mother
Row Erupts Over Risk to Polar Bears
One of the most controversial voices in the global warming debate believes too much emphasis is put on extinction fears for ecology's poster animals.
Famed Polar Bear Cub Gets Death Threat
Security guards were called in to protect the prized baby polar bear, Knut, yesterday, after Berlin zoo received a threat warning that the celebrity cub was about to die.
Bush Backtracks on Global Warming With Plan to Protect Polar Bears
Melting arctic ice prompts climate change concession- Campaigners hope to force cuts in carbon emissions
Hunter Kills the World's Rarest Bear
DNA tests of a bear, shot in the Northwest Territories of Canada, showed last week it was a hybrid of polar bear and a grizzly - perhaps the first ever seen in the wild.
Buy the Right Car, Save a Polar Bear
A recent series of news stories suggests that polar ice caps are melting faster than expected, and that this phenomenon may result in the extinction of one of humanity’s favorite animals, the polar bear.
Mass Extinction Rate 'faster Than Dinosaurs'
Polar bears and hippos have joined the ranks of threatened species, along with a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals and coniferous plants, according to the World Conservation Union.
Polar Bears Living on Thin Ice After Record Temperatures
This could be the hottest year ever recorded, posing a threat to Arctic wildlife including polar bears, ice-dwelling seals and several forms of vegetation, according to UN scientists collating data from across the world.
Mummy Polar Bear and Baby Polar Bear
A Mummy polar bear and a Baby polar bear are sitting on and iceberg . . .
Bear facts
A polar bear cub that was rescued after its mother was killed by hunters has made headlines across Canada, but global warming means that other members of his species may not be so lucky, writes Anne McIlroy
Polar bears
Scientists fear polar bears will be extinct in the wild within 60 years. Mark Oliver looks at the threat and finds plenty of polar bear lovers online.