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You Could Hear a Pinniped Drop
Walruses should be threatened species, says litigious green group |
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28 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:31 PM on 28 May 2008 Having seen no action on a petition from last year, the Center for Biological Diversity says it will sue to force the U.S. Interior Department to consider listing the walrus as a threatened species. Walruses do all of their resting between foraging trips, breeding, and chillaxing on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing. And "[a]s the sea ice recedes, so ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Handle With Caribou
Caribou numbers declining in Alaska and Canada |
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20 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:36 PM on 20 May 2008 Hello, and welcome back to The Plight of Arctic Wildlife. Previously we've covered polar bears, narwhals, seals, and walruses -- today we're going to tackle caribou. (Well, not literally.) After years of steady growth, Alaska's largest caribou herd lost 20 percent of its population between 2003 and 2007, according to the latest count. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd now numbers 377,000. Other her ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Horn of a Dilemma
Narwhals more at risk than polar bears, says study |
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25 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:10 PM on 25 Apr 2008 Polar bears get all the press, but climate change may be even harder on the narwhal, says new research. Narwhals, the whales whose long spiral tusks kick-started the myth of unicorns, top a list of 11 at-risk Arctic marine mammals published in the journal Ecological Applications. Hooded seals, bowhead whales, and walrus rounded out the top five, while ringed seals and bearded seals, which a ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics) |
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