IG Looks at Delays in Polar Bear Listing

Mar 08, 2008 By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
IG Looks at Delays in Polar Bear Listing (AP)
This undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a sow polar bear resting with her cubs on the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska. The Interior Department's inspector general has begun a preliminary investigation into why the department has delayed for nearly two months a decision on listing the polar bear as threatened because of the loss of Arctic sea ice. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, Steve Amstrup)

(AP) -- The Interior Department's inspector general has begun a preliminary investigation into why the department has delayed for nearly two months a decision on listing the polar bear as threatened because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.



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superhuman
not rated yet Mar 09, 2008
Sad, humanity is a terrible disease for our lovely planet Earth. Worse then any planetoid ever to join its crust. Consume, consume, consume... soon polar bears will be consumed.

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