Sunday 27 July 2014

Climate change ravaging Antarctic fur seals: study

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Climate change ravaging Antarctic fur seals: study
Paris (AFP) July 23, 2014 - A food shortage likely caused by climate change is shrinking a South Antarctic fur seal colony and changing the profile of its surviving members, researchers said Wednesday. South Georgia island's Antarctic fur seal pups have a lower average birth weight, and there are fewer breeding adults - who hold out longer to reproduce than in the past, according to study results published in the jour ... more


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