United States: Polar Bear Gets Threatened Status Because of Warming
Bloomberg: The U.S. declared the polar bear a threatened species, giving protected status for the first time to an animal because of global warming while also including provisions to ensure continued oil and gas development. The carnivore, which hunts on ice sheets that are shrinking because of higher Arctic temperatures, joins more than 1,200 species in the U.S. classified as threatened or endangered with extinction. The ruling, announced by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne at a Washington ...
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