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Caribou babies hit hard by climate change
2013-10-01 12:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The melting of arctic sea ice is indirectly leading to higher mortality among caribou calves, new research suggests. Penn State University biologists Eric Post and Jeffrey Kerby have unravelled the links between sea ice loss, the timing of plant growth on land and caribou breeding in Greenland over the past two decades. 'The animals show up expecting a food bonanza, but they find that the cafeteria already has closed.'- Jeffrey Kerby, biologist They have discovered...
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