The Interior Department on Wednesday designated the polar bear as threatened with extinction because of shrinking sea ice, making it the first creature added to the endangered species list ...

Polar Bears Listed As Threatened Under U.S. Endangered Species Act; Loss Of Sea Ice To Blame Date: May 15, 2008 Source: US Department of the Interior Summary: The U.S. government has finally ...

claiming manmade global warming threatens the polar bears’ survival, have called for an endangered species listing with extraordinarily far-reaching consequences. Such a listing would most ...

The Center has led the charge to save polar bears from extinction. We wrote the 2005 scientific petition calling for their protection under the Endangered Species Act, and we filed suit twice with our ...

During Polar Bear Week, celebrated the first week of November, animal advocacy groups around the world focus on these marine mammals, listed as threatened on the U.S. endangered species list ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Polar bears are in deep trouble because of global warming and other factors and deserve federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration is proposing ...

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In 2008, after projections showed that two thirds of the world’s polar bears could die by the middle of the 21st century, polar bears became the first animal to be listed as a protected species ...

There is a link between global warming and polar ... polar bears, there was no methodology in place to quantify the specific effect that human-caused climate change had on the iconic species.