Alaska's Iliamna Lake Harbor seals are genetically isolated from entire Pacific Ocean, research reveals
There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the ...
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Alaska’s Iliamna Lake Harbor seals genetically isolated from entire Pacific Ocean
Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals have been difficult to study because of their remoteness. They weren’t even identified as ...
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Fishermen Think They Found A Seal Floating On An Iceberg, Then They Take A Closer Look
Life at sea brings all manner of incredible experiences and challenges, with the proximity to the beauty and power of mother ...
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The First Known Outbreak Of Rabies In Seals Has Been Identified Along South Africa's Coast, Affecting Two Dozen Cape Fur Seals
Along South Africa’s coast, an outbreak of rabies in seals was identified. It is the first time the virus has spread among ...
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Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay
As Churchill, Manitoba, plans for a future without polar bears, the town is hoping belugas will come to the rescue.
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The polar bear and the bird scientist: George Divoky’s 50-year Arctic vigil
He came to Alaska as a young man to study seabirds on this barren barrier island. Decades later, he found the fingerprints of climate change. After a lifetime, will he see this colony disappear?
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Humans must recenter the Earth before it's too late
In 2004, we were invited to speak at Telluride with our first book, Lost Africa: The Eyes of Origin. Marie was pregnant with ...
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Judge says NMFS critical habitat for endangered species too broad
In a Sept. 26 order, Judge Sharon Gleason of the federal District Court in Alaska upheld an appeal by the state of Alaska against the National Marine Fisheries Service's designation of critical ...
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Announcing WWF’s Arctic Community Wildlife Grants Program
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is happy to announce that submissions are open for the WWF Arctic Community Wildlife Grants program ...
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A Journey to the North Pole—Then and Now
Before I went to the North Pole this summer, I read the memoir of the greatest Arctic explorer of an earlier era. “Farthest ...
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Judge sets aside vast critical seal habitat designation
A judge in Alaska has set aside a federal agency’s action designating an area the size of Texas as critical habitat for two ...
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Alaska judge rejects critical habitat designation for bearded, ringed seals
Bearded and ringed seals give birth and rear their pups on ... of Texas as critical habitat for two species of threatened Arctic Alaska seals. Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason ...