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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2007-12-16 03:11 pm
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Another canary in a mine

Climate change blamed as thousands of walruses die in stampedes

By DAN JOLING

The Associated Press


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.

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