Polar bears and baby seals are starving and stranded
Disappearing ice in the North Atlantic and the Arctic is blamed for the animals' deaths
Pity the polar bears, and the baby seals. Yesterday, we received news via The Guardian of a Duke University study which found that stable winter sea ice, where harp seal pups are born and sheltered in their early days, is quickly disappearing. This is affecting not just the weak baby seals, but all the baby seals. According to satellite images analyzed by the researchers, the amount of ice available to them in the North Atlantic has diminished at a rate of 6 percent per decade since 1979, For further illustration, each little orange dot here represents a stranded seal:
Lindsay Abrams is an assistant editor at Salon, focusing on all things sustainability. Follow her on Twitter @readingirl, email labrams@salon.com.
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