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New results are published today (Wednesday 18 June) in the journal Global Change Biology and show how seals depend on sea ice for their survival. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) ...
Research published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science linked fur seal deaths in the Bering Sea to the same ...
The diminutive seals are the obvious ‘poster children’ of the Caspian Sea’s plight, but many other species are threatened by its retreat, and the environmental impacts are far-reaching.
People walk past a dead Cape fur seal on Melkbosstrand beach near Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. One of the positive rabies tests was on a seal carcass collected in August 2022, ...
A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc-Sablon, Québec, in early March. Normally harp seals give birth and raise their pups on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but ...