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Polar bears in western Arctic going hungry: Study
2009 January 6 Tuesday 9AM — Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON — Polar bears in the western Arctic are finding it increasingly difficult to find food during the critical spring period, a recent study suggests. Seth Cherry, a PhD candidate working with University of Alberta scientist Andrew Derocher, came to the conclusion after comparing blood samples taken from polar bears in 1985-86 and comparing them to samples taken two decades later when sea ice cover was near or at record lows.

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The mystery of Antarctica's speeding glacier
2009 January 6 Tuesday 9AM — telegraph.co.uk/

With the possible exception of the ice that covers Greenland, the West Antarctic ice shelf is the most important body of water in the world. If it thaws, the results will be disastrous for millions, raising sea levels and flooding coastal cities such as London, New York, Tokyo and Calcutta. So it is understandable that scientists are alarmed as to why one particular section of it - Pine Island Glacier - is melting so much faster than the rest.

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SPOTLIGHT

Californians to Bush: the feeling's mutual

SF Gate
President Bush once remarked at a White House party that in the famously liberal enclave of San Francisco, his supporters were so rare that "you could probably fit them all in one room." He wasn't exaggerating, and he would do little to alter his standing. He never once set foot in San Francisco during his two terms, and he was hardly much chummier with California as a whole, the nation's most populous state and the world's eighth-largest economy.
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Earthtalk: Rising Seas and Buying a New Car Vs. Keeping a Well-Maintained Used Car

Earth Talk
Dear EarthTalk: With all the talk of rising seas, what could happen to the rivers that flow into the oceans? Will they reverse flow? Will rising seas back up into fresh water lakes? And what happens to our groundwater should saltwater flow backwards into it? - Sandy Smith, concerned Michigander
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