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- March 11, 2020
Extraordinary Earth: These seal pups thrive on ice
Somewhere in the northwest Atlantic, is the biggest baby nursery on Earth.
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Video: Here's how climate change is thinning out ice and threatening baby seals
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“They need about three weeks, sometimes up to four to learn how to be a harp seal, mature, and be able to survive on their own,” said National Geographic Explorer and photographer, Jennifer Hayes.
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“There’s no escaping it,” said Peter Galbraith, a research scientist for Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
“There is no stopping this as long as the world keeps pumping CO2 in the atmosphere,” said Galbraith. “Global warming will continue. And winter air temperatures will get warmer, and sea ice will get weaker.”
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“Everybody has an impact on this planet,” said Hayes. “Every one of us. And I think if we all felt we were part of this bigger ecosystem, a part of it, that -- and we thought about it, that we might actually look at what we do every day.”
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