| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/10/02, 1:53 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service say that the large numbers of
walrus would normally rest and eat on sea ice, but that increasingly no longer exists in late summer. For the Pacific walrus, global warming is undeniable. An estimated 10,000 walrus have come ashore on Alaska’s northwest coast, the National Marine Fisheries Service reported, as the sea ice the animals normally rely on to rest continues to melt at alarming rates.
Since 2007, government scientists have tracked numerous large walrus “haulouts” in Alaska and this one began last week "Large walrus haulouts along the Alaskan coasts in the northeastern
Chukchi Sea are a relatively new phenomenon," Megan Ferguson, marine mammal scientist with NOAA Fisheries, said on the agency’s website. Walrus typically use ice in the Chukchi Sea upon which to rest, and feed on clams and other prey.
Over the past decade, however, they have been forced to come ashore more frequently as global temperatures have continued to rise. As of September 2012, sea ice reached its lowest square area since measurements began in 1979, Physics Today reported, and represented 55% less coverage than was measured in 1980.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news....XqzBVRD
An estimated 10,000 Pacific walrus have gone ashore on Alaska's northwest coast and are bunched along a beach near the village of Point Lay.
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| LIBertea | Date: Friday, 2013/10/04, 3:37 PM | Message # 2 | DMCA |
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What is happening to our planet is really sad!
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| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/10/05, 9:22 AM | Message # 3 | DMCA |
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Yes it is indeed. And much of it begins right here at home and what we do to each other. And the environment of course.
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