Polar explorer Steger says polar bears' new status highlights the dangers of global warming

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The polar bear just got listed as a threatened species, but veteran polar explorer Will Steger and the team he's leading in the Canadian Arctic found themselves threatened - by the bears.

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German gets Nobel in chemistry for research on thinning ozone layer

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Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for work that has become invaluable to the modern chemical industry and helped the fight to fix the ozone hole

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