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...Churchill, Man., on the western shore of Hudson Bay. When the ice breaks up in the summer, the bears come ashore by the hundreds to wait for the autumn refreeze. So it's where tourists and scientists go, to gawk at and study the huge white predators. Just south of Churchill, the Canadian government recently created Wapusk National Park (wapusk means "white bear" in the indigenous Cree language) to protect the area where pregnant females dig their dens. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...reason for the potential habitat overlap is twofold: grizzlies seem to be expanding their range east and south from the Rockies, mostly as a result of their growing population, says Rockwell. Polar bears, meanwhile, are spending more time on land, as global warming causes ice to break up earlier and refreeze later in the year. And that means that while encounters between these huge bears might be rare today, they could become increasingly common...
...been hit by not one but two tsunamis. In 1946, a quake in Alaska led to the deaths of nearly 160 people in this city on Hawaii's Big Island. In 1960, an earthquake in Chile sent another cataclysmic wave into Hilo, killing 61. (See the effects of the South Pacific tsunami...
Call it the Asian Invasion. Or the Beast from the East. But for the first time in Olympic history, Asian skaters stood upon the podium in three of the four figure-skating events. With South Korea's Kim Yu-Na winning a gold medal and Japan's Mao Asada a silver with their skates on Thursday, Feb. 25, athletes from the Far East earned five of the 12 figure-skating medals in Vancouver. It's the highest haul so far in the sport at the Olympics for those from the Pacific Rim, and it signals the beginning of what many...
...testament to her skating skills that Kim, the first South Korean skater to win gold, with her score of 150.06 in the free program, surpassed Asada's score of 131.72 for the night, which included the two high-scoring triple Axel jumps. The difference came in Kim's delivery. The South Korean earned only positive points for her execution of jumps, spins, spirals and transitions, while Asada was downgraded and lost points for underrotating a jump. "It was toward the end of my performance, and I think my legs were a little tired," said Asada after her program. "I wish...