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What climate change means for federally protected marine species

Hannah Hickey — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:48:33 +0000

As the Endangered Species Act nears its 40th birthday at the end of December, conservation biologists are coming to terms with a danger not foreseen in the 1970s: global climate change.

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Shrinking snow depth on Arctic sea ice threatens ringed seal habitat

Nancy Gohring — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:31:08 +0000

Scientists found that the habitat required for ringed seals -- animals under consideration for the threatened species list -- to rear their young will drastically shrink this century.

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Critically endangered whales sing like birds; new recordings hint at rebound — with audio

Nancy Gohring — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:55:24 +0000

When a �� researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off the east coast of Greenland, she was stunned at what she heard: whales singing a remarkable variety of songs nearly constantly for five wintertime months. Listen to the bowheads repeat their other-worldly song as they cross the Fram Strait. Bowhead whale song 1 Bowhead whale song 2 Kate Stafford, an oceanographer with UW’s Applied Physics...

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