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A quiet little story that appeared on Reuters mid-week came and went with little fanfare. Before a U.S. district court, a coalition of oil industry groups and Alaska Natives successfully won an order to vacate the government's polar habitat that was designated in 2013. And while the Obama administration plans to appeal that ruling, the decision to "list large swathes of the Arctic as necessary for the conservation" of polar bears has been rescinded. And for good reason. Every ten years, for periods of 2-3 years, polar bears literally die from starvation. The cause? Thick spring ice conditions in the Southern Beaufort regions of Alaska, which prevents the polar bears from eating. But the Obama administration is determined to overturn that ruling even though the move wouldn't protect these large mammals from dying.https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_critical-habitat-polar-bears-us_northslopeorg-map_labeled.jpg