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What Climate Change Looks Like From the Arctic's Edge
2015-09-18 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: On a wet, cool day this past July, while mosquitoes swarmed his hands and face, field technician Kenneth Mills squatted on the gravel shore of Hudson Bay. He patiently closed a plastic band around the leg of a young shorebird--a semipalmated plover--while a research partner armed with a rifle and binoculars stood on lookout for polar bears. The pair banded 67 birds over 68 days, a small but essential part of data collection thats been conducted annually near Churchill, Manitoba, since 1992--one...
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