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Tracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice

Tracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice

A USGS film released in November 2012 will take you on a journey along with USGS researchers tracking walruses going about their daily lives in the...

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Pacific Walruses Studied as Sea Ice Melts

Pacific Walruses Studied as Sea Ice Melts

USGS Alaska Science Center researchers, in cooperation with the Native Village of Point Lay, Alaska, attached 74 satellite radio tags to Pacific...

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Projected Losses of Arctic Sea Ice and Polar Bear Habitat May Be Reduced if Greenhouse-Gas Emissions are Stabilized

Projected Losses of Arctic Sea Ice and Polar Bear Habitat May Be Reduced if Greenhouse-Gas Emissions are Stabilized

USGS-led research provides evidence that during this century there does not seem to be a tipping point at which sea-ice loss would become irreversible...

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