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Decision on polar bears pushed back
Anchorage, Alaska (UPI) Jan 7, 2008 Environmental groups have threatened to file a lawsuit in Washington if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does not make a decision on polar bears. The service is still discussing whether the polar bears should be added to the threatened list under the Endangered Species Act, the Anchorage Daily News reported Monday. A decision was scheduled to be released this week, but new research has delayed the sending of the agency's recommendation to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, said Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Valerie Fellows. "We expect to provide a final recommendation to the secretary of the interior and finalize the decision within the next month," she said in a statement. The Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace plan to file a suit Wednesday to speed up the process. Related Links Beyond the Ice Age
Shifting heat layers above Arctic to blame for ice crisis: study
Paris (AFP) Jan 2, 2008The dramatic loss of the Arctic ice cap may have been triggered by disruption to the thermal layers of atmosphere stacked over Earth's far north, according to Swedish research to be published Thursday. |
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