| Boston Globe: ARCTIC POLAR BEARS are becoming canaries in the mine, warning of the consequences of global warming. Even the Bush administration has been forced, grudgingly, to acknowledge this. Last week, it proposed to put the bears on the threatened species list because rising temperatures in the Arctic are depriving them of the ice platforms from which they hunt seals. But Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne acted only under pressure of a suit from environmental organizations, and has refused to ... |
