On AlterNet: polar bears

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Use a Condom, Save a Polar Bear? Not That Simple

Katie McKay Bryson, AlterNet. April 13, 2010.

Many factors besides human overpopulation contribute to our environmental crises.

Bag a Polar Bear for $35,000 -- Hunters in Rising Numbers Willing to Shell Out for Exotic Trophy

Jerome Taylor, Coastal Post. April 14, 2009.

Every year scores of wealthy hunters from around the world pay a small fortune to collect their own a coveted polar bear hide.

Palin's War on Wildlife Takes to the Sea

AKMuckraker, Huffington Post. October 21, 2008.

It's not just the demise polar bears and wolves that Palin is gunning for if it means profits for oil and gas.

Palin Used Exxon, Oil Industry-Funded Scientists for Global Warming Study

Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 1, 2008.

No wonder her science is a little fuzzy.

We've Got One Week Left to Stop One of Bush's Worst Environmental Attacks

George Lakoff, Chris Shutes, AlterNet. September 8, 2008.

A simple redefinition of terms will destroy the Endangered Species Act in less than a week if we don't act now.

Glenn Beck Rants Against Endangered Polar Bears: "They Eat People! They’re Big, Angry Bears!"

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Media and Technology. April 4, 2008.

Beck teams up with Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) to rant about "all the liberals" running the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Bush v. the Polar Bears

Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. March 15, 2007.

Forget public pressure and Congressional action, the one thing that might force the Bush administration to change its tune on global warming is the endangered status of polar bears.