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05.18.2008 9:00 pm

Monday editorial: Canary on an ice floe

polar_opt.jpgCaught between a federal judge’s order and a mountain of accumulating scientific evidence, the Bush administration reluctantly listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But the administration pointedly refuses to address the threat that imperils the bears and…

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04.03.2008 11:54 am

Polar bears and oil leases

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Polar bears are threatened by global warming, which is melting the ice pack on which they hunt and live. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be extinct by 2050. In January 2007, The…

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