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Helpless Predator
This photo, which appeared last year and accompanies reports that melting polar ice caps were literally stranding polar bears in the middle of the ocean, is moving. I w as disturbed for several minutes after looking at it...

Arctic Sea Ice Melting Fast
According to a new report by Wang and Overland in Geophysical Research Letters, the arctic sea ice is melting fast enough that it will be largely gone within 30 years. The ice is melting so fast because arctic temperatures in...

Obama administration to keep Bush-era rule on polar bear global warming protections
[JURIST] The US Department of the Interior (DOI) will maintain a controversial Bush-era rule that limits how polar bears are protected from global warming, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Friday...

Polar Bears, Secretary Salazar and Climate Change
Polar bears cannot catch a break.  The Bush Administration reluctantly declared the bear a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)  a year or so ago.  The threat arose because of shrinking habitat caused by polar ice melting...

Climate Change Panel 2
Scientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, the several countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle - including Russia, the U...

Climate Change Panel 1
Scientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, the several countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle - including Russia, the U...

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

FDA
Halts Importation of Drugs Manufactured Offshore By Ranbaxy

Apple iPods
Injuries, Burning, and Melting Reported

Reddy Ice Holdings Inc., Arctic Glacier International Inc., and Home City Ice Co.
allegedly violated federal antitrust laws by fixing prices for packaged cubed, crushed, block, and dry ice in the US and Canada.

Digitek Recalled
the heart drug allegedly contains double the medication that it should

Bank Website Security
New Report Finds Widespread Flaws

Operating Room Fires
Hundreds Injured During Surgery, New Report Shows