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With Arctic Ice Gone, Walruses go South to Alaska's Beaches

By clock on October 9, 2007.

Melting Sea Ice Forcing Walruses Ashore:

Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.

Alaska's walrus, especially breeding females, in summer and fall are usually found on the Arctic ice pack. But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.

[Via Russ Williams]

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