Rapidly warming oceans have left many Arctic marine mammals swimming in troubled waters. But perhaps none more so than that strange and mysterious “unicorn of the sea,” the narwhal.

Rapidly warming oceans have left many Arctic marine mammals swimming in troubled waters. But perhaps none more so than that strange and mysterious “unicorn of the sea,” the narwhal.

A research study published this spring estimates, habitat suitable to narwhals could shrink by a staggering twenty-five percent by century’s end. Thanks to manmade climate change, their watery home is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. And, in a scant few decades, sea-ice, so vital to their survival, could be gone altogether during Arctic […]

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The plight of the “Short-Ear.” A wild dog in trouble

The plight of the “Short-Ear.” A wild dog in trouble

Whether famous or obscure, Earth’s wild creatures cannot hide from the hand of man. Scant months ago, more than a billion animals, including iconic kangaroos and cuddly koalas, perished in Australia’s calamitous bushfires, found by scientists to have been worsened by man-made climate change. Now, researchers say, one of Amazonia’s least-known species could be all […]

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