Seal pups articles
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These artificial snowdrifts protect seal pups from climate change
Just before 10 a.m., hydrobiologist Jari Ilmonen and his team of six step out across a flat, half-mile-wide disk of snow and ice. For half the year this vast clearing is open water, the tip of one arm of the labyrinthine Lake Saimaa, Finland’s biggest lake, which reaches almost to Russia’s western border. As each…
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Hawaiian monk seal births May Day pup on Kaimana Beach
HONOLULU (KHON2) — With May Day celebrations across the state, the biggest party was a birthday on Kaimana Beach on Wednesday morning, May 1. One of Hawaii's iconic monk seals, Kaiwi, birthed her sixth pup as of Wednesday. This would be her third pup born on Kaimana Beach. Marine experts say peak pupping season on []
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Longer-lasting ozone holes over Antarctica expose seal pups and penguin chicks to much more UV
Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink.