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Polar Bear In The Southwest

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Everyone is talking about how the artic is going through a major climate change and that the polar bears are being affected; don't get me wrong that's a major problem. Has anybody considered about the desert in the southwest and how it's getting threatened by the rapid climate change. The animals in the artic get more attention than the plants that are in the southwest desert. One of the plants that an environmental group petitioned to the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service was the Joshua tree. The Joshua tree can grow up to 40 feet tall and lives an average of 150 years. The environmentalists are trying to put the tree under the Endangered Species Act, but only one species has been added and that's the polar bear. One study that scientists have
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