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Polar Bear Deserves Protection
This is a wake up call. It’s haunting to visualize polar bears literally drowning from global warming, unable to swim the increasingly longer distances between declining sea ice and land. But this is exactly what scientists are documenting. Polar bears… Read more >
Polar Bears Threatened by Global Warming?
The Bush administration is continuing to “look into” the potential problem of global warming, announcing today that polar bears might need to be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because their habitat is melting away. Washington Post: “Identifying… Read more >
For Thadeus
When I think about why the protecting the Arctic Refuge matters to me, what first comes to mind isn’t the vast herd of caribou that rely on the refuge, or the polar bears whose icy habitat is shrinking every year,… Read more >
