Polar Bear Alley

This is a collection of northern stories - polar bear, arctic and otherwise from churchill, manitoba, canada - the polar
bear capital of the world.

It follows the polar bears of western Hudson Bay during their season on land from mid-July to November.

Polar Bear Blog
Today's Blog
Archived articles

Polar Bears of Churchill Book
Polar Bear Articles

Munck's Cafe Publishing

Weather in Churchill, Manitoba

Tide Table for Churchill

Latest Polar Bear News

• Cub Survival in Beaufort Sea Declining (November 17, 2006)
• BP Under Scrutiny After Oil Spill (USA Today - August 9, 2006)
• Another view about the current state of polar bears (CBC news - July 2006)
• Polar bear genitals shrinking (LiveScience)
• Beaufort Sea polar bears turning to cannibalism (LiveScience)

The North Slope Oil Spill

• National Geograhic's Article Fall of the Wild
• Jason Leopold's Article from Truthout.org
• Time Magazine Article about BP and Drilling in the Arctic
• BP Under Scrutiny (USA Today)
• A full history of BP Activity (Northern.org)
• BP Learning from Oil Spill (Petroleum News)
• CNN Money's View of the Oil Spill Effects
• Bush Adminstrations Solution for Oil Spill (Sierra Club)
• BP Goes Green on the BBC
• TreeHugger's View of the BP OilSpill
• Wikipedia's Prudhoe Bay Page

Polar Bear Attacks

• Ivujivik Polar Bear Attack (Nunatsiq News 2004)
• Kimmirut Polar Bear Attack (Nunatsiaq News, 2003)
• Polar Bear Attacks Submarine (Strategy World, 2003)
• Katannilik Polar Bear Attack (Nunatsiaq News, August 2001)
• Katannilik Accident Report (Alpine Club of Canada, 2001)
• Polar Bear Attack near Rankin Inlet (Nunatsiaq News, 2001)
• List of Fatal Bear Attacks on Wikipedia
• Read the polar bear attack page on polar bear alley

Arctos vs. Maritimus - Grizzlies and Polar Bears

• First Grizzly/Polar Bear Cross in Wild (Terra Daily 04/05/06)
• Grizzlies on Ice (National Wildlife - Feb/Mar 2006 Vol.44 no.2
• Grizzlies in the Arctic (UofAlberta - 01/03/06)

Polar Bear Quotas in Nunavut

• Concern in North over U.S. Review (CBC 09/02/06)
• U.S. Reviews Polar Bear Quotas (CBC 01/02/06)
• 'Conservation' Hunting (KnowledgePlex 01/03/06)
• Greenland Introduces Quotas (ENN, 23/02/06)
• Polar Bear Quota Raised - January 2005 (CBC 10/01/05)
• Polar Bear Quotas - (Nunatsiaq News 11/01/05)

Climate Change and Polar Bears

• University of Chicago Scientists Urge For Endangered Species Classification
• Polar Bear Populations in Decline Worldwide (July 6)
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increase in 2005 (Terradaily 06/05/06)
• Canada's Government Proposes $2 Billion for Climate Change (TerraDaily 03/05/06)
• Less sunlight reaching Earth (LiveScience)
• Snow thickness and the arctic (NASA)

View from Churchill