Sunday, March 27, 2005

The Department of the Interior announced today that polar bears will be listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. Environmental groups sought this status for them on grounds rarely used before: The bears are losing habitat because of Earth's warming climate. (Steve Amstrup, File/U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service/AP Photo)

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