Humans can help the critically endangered Saimaa ringed seal to cope with climate change. Human-made snow drifts developed in a recent study improved the breeding success of seals during winters ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals restored the protections in 2016 for the bearded seal before doing the same for ringed seals this week. “Climate change models show the habitat of the Arctic ...

Ringed seals have faced negative life-altering conditions because of climate change. Wikimedia Commons/NOAA 2019-06-04T15:18:00Z ...

Some 320 pups—half of all Saimaa ringed seals born since 2014—took their first breath inside these shelters. MATTHEW PONSFORD Volunteers pile up and compact layers of snow to build a meter ...

Ringed seals (Phoca (pusa) hispida), which are the most abundant seals in the Arctic, rely on stable sea ice to survive. The ice is where they rest, molt and reproduce. But that ice is ...

But climate change is freezing Arctic Ocean sea ice later and melting it sooner. In all but two of the Arctic's 19 polar bear subpopulations, sea ice cover dropped 7 to 19 days per decade from ...

Climate change is causing dramatic ... "The Arctic is now more relevant to us than it has ever been before," said ... like how shifting winds and sea-ice drew a surprising number of ringed seals ...

Eventually splitting from its saltwater parent population, the seal settled into what would become Lake Saimaa – a sprawling, 1,700sq mi freshwater complex of peninsulas, straits, and 14,000 ...

This includes taking quick action on climate change,” said Rohweder The Saimaa ringed seal is one of the rarest seals in the world and can only be found in Lake Saimaa. WWF Finland has worked in many ...

The endangered Saimaa ringed seal is an Ice Age relict living in the highly labyrinthine Lake Saimaa, Finland. The newly published work shows that although individual seals have greatly reduced ...

Loss of ice due to climate change has a direct impact on the ability of polar bears to feed and survive. The bears need platforms of ice to reach their prey of ringed and bearded seals.