Polar Bears Swimming in Open Water August 24, 2008 | New York Times The United States polar bear population spends much of its time on... Oil Companies and Polar Bears May 10, 2009 | Reuters Oil and gas companies operating in Alaska will now be subject to... Unusual World Maps November 15, 2008 | Worldmapper.org Worldmapper.org is a website that has some very interesting maps. The land... Alaska: The Choice Between Polar Bears and Oil Wells February 22, 2008 | MSNBC News If the polar bear goes onto the endangered species list it could... Getting Hard to Find Water in Arizona June 23, 2007 | Monsters and Critics Randy Pellatz, assistant director of utilities for the city of Flagstaff says... Largest Oil Demand Drop Since 1980 November 17, 2008 | Reuters An article in Reuters says that United States oil demand fell by... Glaciers of Alaska November 24, 2008 | USGS "This chapter is the eighth chapter to be released in U.S. Geological... Yemen Faces Water Shortage August 23, 2007 | Yemen Times In 1975 the city of Sanaa, Yemen had a population of 135,000... Population Responses to Climate Change June 7, 2009 | American Institute of Biological Sciences "Sophisticated studies that correlate fluctuations in animal populations with climate indices across... More On Egypt’s Water Issues August 6, 2007 | IPS News Egypt is experiencing a rapid growth of population and the water demand... Polar Discovery at Woods Hole December 8, 2007 | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has lots of interesting content related to the... Polar Mesospheric Clouds July 2, 2007 | NASA NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere website has two interesting images... Atlantic Cod Extinction December 1, 2008 | Science The Atlantic Cod was very heavily fished for fifty years off the... Mars Orbiter Gathering Data on Water and Climate September 21, 2007 | NASA The Mars orbiter is looking at features such as erosion gullies, polar... International Polar Year: USGS Website and Fact Sheet May 5, 2007 | USGS USGS is adding more information to the International Polar Year Website. According... The Great Oxidation Event April 20, 2009 | Carnegie Institution for Science An article on the Carnegie Institution for Science website explores a possible... Alleviating Water Shortages February 15, 2009 | BBC News People in many parts of the world are facing water shortages, and... Girl Attacked by Grizzly and Calls 911 June 30, 2008 | MSNBC A 14-year-old girl in a 24 hour mountain bike race was attacked... More Interesting Maps November 27, 2008 | National Public Radio Mark Newman of the University of Michigan makes lots of maps that... Geology of Planet Mercury July 8, 2008 | NASA New data from the Messenger spacecraft reveals information about Mercury's volcanoes, impact... |