Citing Shrinking Sea Ice, Feds List Several Arctic Seal Species As Threatened And Endangered

From ThinkProgress Sun Jan 6 2013, 14:15:28

by Bob Berwyn, via Summit County Citizens Voice Recognizing that the best available science suggests a significant loss of Arctic sea ice in the next few decades, federal biologists last week finalized Endangered Species Act protection for two species of ice-dependent seals. NOAA will list as threatened the Beringia and Okhotsk populations of bearded seals, [...]

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