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Young harp seals in the North Atlantic at risk from melting sea ice
2013-08-05 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Shrinking sea ice is bad news for the baby harp seal, according to researchers from Duke University in the US. Pagophilus groenlandicus relies on stable winter sea ice to provide a safe platform to give birth and nurse the young until the pups can swim, hunt and fend off predators. But the Duke team report in PLoS One, the Public Library of Science journal, that in four harp seal breeding regions of the North Atlantic, the winter ice had declined by 6% a decade since 1979. The researchers based...
Harp Seals Abandoning Their Pups Thanks To Climate Change
2013-07-23 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Duke University scientists have determined that young harp seals off the eastern coast of Canada are at a greater risk of getting stranded than adult seals due to climate change. Researchers wrote in the open-access journal PLOS ONE that declining sea ice is leaving baby harp seals stranded in greater numbers. "Stranding rates for the region`s adult seals have generally not gone up as sea ice cover has declined; it`s the young-of-the-year animals who are stranding (those less than one year...
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Melting Sea Ice Causing Decline in Harp Seal Populations
2013-07-23 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Warming temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean have lead to a decline in sea ice, which is leaving populations of young harp seals dead in the water, according to researchers at Duke University. "Stranding rates for the region's adult seals have generally not gone up as sea ice cover has declined; it's the young-of-the-year animals who are stranding," said David Johnston, a research scientist at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, of the pups not even a year old. "And it's not just...
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