"US Takes Action to Save Wolverines from Extinction as Climate Change Threatens Their Mountain Homes"

The North American wolverine is set to receive threatened species protections under a proposal by the Biden administration, as climate change threatens to melt away their mountain refuges and push them towards extinction. Wolverines, which were wiped out across most of the US by the early 1900s, currently survive in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations in the northern Rocky Mountains. The decision to protect the wolverines' remaining habitat comes after more than two decades of disputes over the risks of climate change and threats to their long-term survival. The protections are seen as crucial to giving the species a fighting chance against habitat degradation and fragmentation caused by climate change.