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Government sued over polar bear ruling delay

A photo released by the 'Tiergarten Nuernberg' zoo in Nuremberg on Monday March 10, 2008 shows polar bear cub Flocke trying to climb up a walls of her enclosure. A trio of environmental groups sued the US government on March 10, 2008 for failing to meet a legal deadline to decide if polar bears should be considered threatened by climate change under the Endangered Species Act. [Agencies]

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