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'It's their area too': How people in Churchill have learned to live with polar bears
Churchill is a remote northern Manitoba town that not only lives with polar bears next door, but loves it. That's because the predators attract the tourists who are now an important part of Churchill's economy.
Curious belugas frolic in a warming Hudson Bay that threatens polar bears
Playful large white beluga whales' happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by warming water that's melting sea ice, starving polar bears and changing the entire food chain.
Melting sea ice, disappearing high-fat food sources mean trouble for Hudson Bay polar bears
Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low-fat, low-ice diet because of climate change. And it's getting lower on polar bears.
Churchill adapts and thrives as warming climate threatens polar bear tourism
Residents, government officials and experts say Churchill is a model for coping with dramatic shifts and attribute it to the rural mindset that focuses on fixing, not whining.
Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming
For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.
Scientists count huge melts in many protective Antarctic ice shelves. Trillions of tons of ice lost
Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30 per cent since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial "gatekeepers" between the frozen continent's massive glaciers and open ocean.
Exxon Mobil accurately predicted global warming since 1970s, study finds
Scientists with oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil made remarkably accurate predictions about global warming, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists' conclusions, a new study has found.
December serving up baked Alaska and warming most of Arctic
Much of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December warming. Sea ice in the Arctic is about sixth lowest on record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
World faces a 2.8-degree warmer future by 2100 if countries continue with current 'action gap,' UN warns
The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains "far behind" and is not doing nearly enough — nor even promising to do enough — to reach any of the global goals limiting future warming, a United Nations report said.
Record highs, rain and beaver damage noted in 'alarming' Arctic report card
The Arctic continues to deteriorate from global warming, not setting as many records this year as in the past, but still changing so rapidly that federal scientists call it alarming in their annual Arctic report card.