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Ice melt could devastate polar bears

Washington -- A U.S. report says melting Arctic sea ice could reduce the world's polar bear population by two-thirds within 50 years.

Washington -- A U.S. report says melting Arctic sea ice could reduce the world's polar bear population by two-thirds within 50 years.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the sea ice that polar bears depend on as a platform to hunt seals, which is their primary food, is decreasing throughout their Arctic range due to climate change. Models used by the USGS team project a 42 percent loss of optimal polar bear habitat from the Polar Basin during summer by the middle of this century, the agency said Friday in a release.

Wildlife officials are considering whether to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

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Copyright 2007 by United Press International.

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Are We Still Whining About This??

Come on.

People and polar bears alike will adapt. Leave the environment alone and let the Earth's warming AND COOLING run its course as its done for the past 4 BILLION years.

Oh, to address "Know it all pearson"'s comment about left-handed people die 7 years earlier than right-handed people, if that is true then following the logic of todays fruit-cake society that wants to protect us from everything under the sun, maybe we should OUTLAW parents who raise their children as lefties.

We can add that to the list of banned things (i.e. trans fats, smoking, hyperactive (normal) children, sadness and everything else that SOCIETY tells us is wrong).

Know it all pearson's picture
polar bears

did you no that all polar bears are left handed? and left handed people die 7 years befor right handed people? so that means right handed people live 7 years longer than the polar bear! how interesting! my feet are big!

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