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Alaska Image Library on December 21, 2005. (HANDOUT/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska Image Library/Reuters)" border="0" />Reuters - Polar bears, sea ice and global warming are taboo subjects, at least in public, for some U.S. scientists attending meetings abroad, environmental groups and a top federal wildlife official said on Thursday.

winter bathing organization in the United States, holds a New Years Day swim annually. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)" border="0" />AP - Hundreds of people bravely splashed into cold ocean waters to start the new year Monday, but one man ended up in a hospital. The man was not a member of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club but was merely one of the 200 or so people who joined the 80 members to take the annual plunge into the 48-degree Atlantic Ocean waters, club spokesman Louie Scarcella said.

winter bathing organization in the United States, holds a New Years Day swim annually. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)" border="0" />AP - Hundreds of people bravely splashed into cold ocean waters to start the new year Monday, but one man ended up in a hospital. The man was not a member of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club but was merely one of the 200 or so people who joined the 80 members to take the annual plunge into the 48-degree Atlantic Ocean waters, club spokesman Louie Scarcella said.

file photo provided by Mary Sage shows a polar bear watching a whaling crew off shore near Barrow, Alaska, Monday, May 22, 2006. Polar bears are in deep trouble because of global warming and other factors and deserve federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration is proposing Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Mary Sage, Joseph Napaaqtuq Sage)" border="0" />AP - Polar bears are in deep trouble because of global warming and other factors and deserve federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration is proposing Wednesday.

rock at the Artis zoo in Amsterdam August 3, 2006. President Bush's administration is proposing to list the polar bear as an endangered species because of warming temperatures in the animal's habitat, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. (Toussaint Kluiters/Reuters)" border="0" />Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush's administration is proposing to list the polar bear as an endangered species because of warming temperatures in the animal's habitat, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.