Scientists are reporting thousands of walruses congregating on the northwest coast of Alaska. The scientists believe this is the consequence of global warming. As the ice sheet of the Artic Ocean melts the walruses are responding by using the coast as a breeding ground. They are following the new food routes. What impact this will have on the animals and vegetation of the coast is unknown. What is also unknown is what the impact will be of closer human-marine mammal contact.
The sea ice is melting far faster than Interior Department experts had predicted. Reversing the loss of sea ice requires nothing short of a planetary effort.
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