IG Looks at Delays in Polar Bear Listing

March 8th, 2008 By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

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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  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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