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Polar Bears Listed As US Threatened Species

Reuters: Polar bears were listed on Wednesday as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act because their sea ice habitat is melting away. However, this new protection does not aim to reduce climate change -- which environmentalists see as the cause of the bears' disappearing habitat -- or Arctic drilling for the fossil fuels that spur the climate-warming greenhouse effect. In announcing the government's decision one day ahead of a court-ordered deadline, Interior Secretary Dirk ... Read »
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