By requiring proof of "existing polar bear activity," the court "impermissibly shifted the focus" of the critical habitat designation away from the population's "primary constituent elements," ...

The sales, set to begin Wednesday, will allow drilling in about 30 million acres, including critical polar bear habitat, environmentalists say.

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An environmental group on Thursday gave formal notice that it intends to sue the federal government for what conservationists consider a failure to protect critical habitat for polar bears from ...

A federal appeals court last week ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was following the law when it designated a California-sized piece of the Alaskan Arctic as critical habitat for the polar ...

SEATTLE — In what would be the largest habitat zone ever established in the U.S. to protect a species from extinction, the federal government on Thursday proposed designating 200,541 square ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and scientists like Geoff York.

JUNEAU, Alaska— Today conservationists and Alaska Natives filed suit in federal court challenging the Bush administration’s plan to sell 30 million acres of prime polar bear habitat for oil and gas ...

ANCHORAGE — The federal plan for designating more than 187,000 square miles as polar bear critical habitat is too large and will lead to huge, unnecessary costs for Alaska’s petroleum industry ...

Over 200,000 square miles of Alaska and its coastal waters have been earmarked by the Department of the Interior as “critical habitat” for polar bears, according to Backpacker. With critical ...

The court found that the record showed routine polar bear activity and denning near Deadhorse and that despite some human activity, polar bears could still move through Deadhorse to access den sites.