Fur seals are declining thanks to lack of food and climate change, study finds
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Krill populations are plummeting due to warming waters, which leaves fur seals without meals
Seals rely on krill to survive, and krill populations are declining due to climate change
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Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land
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New Research Shows Direct Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Pinniped - Wikipedia
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Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
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Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Threatened
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Polar bears' desperate struggle to find food in a melting Arctic
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Fur seals are declining thanks to lack of food and climate change
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Research on seals has implications for sustainability
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11 Arctic species affected by climate change
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For years, scientists couldn't explain the decline in these Bering
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New Research to Examine Relationships Between Northern Fur Seals