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Utqiaġvik, Alaska, United States
Shady Grove Oliver /
Anchorage Daily News /
November 6, 2019
Aerial surveys this September and October show the bowheads aren’t where they usually are.
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on Anchorage Daily News
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Brevig Mission, Alaska, United States
James Olanna, Johnee Seetot, Mike Brubaker and Vladimir Romanovsky /
LEO Network /
October 30, 2019
This year was one of the warmest and wettest in recorded history, and permafrost thaw is causing the ground at the mass gravesite to sink.
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Hailuoto, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Yle Uutiset /
November 4, 2019
The oval ice formations created by wave action were piled up on a Hailuoto beach.
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on Yle Uutiset
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Sauðárkrókur, Northwest, Iceland
Ragnar Tómas /
Iceland Review /
November 3, 2019
“I could hardly believe my eyes,” said Ingólfur Sveinsson, resident of the Skagi peninsula.
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on Iceland Review
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Kurilsky Nature Reserve
Siberia Times /
November 4, 2019
Researchers in Kurils Nature Reserve confirm no less than 10% of the bear population has a distinctive silver coat.
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on Siberia Times
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Alaska, United States
Sarah Gibbens /
National Geographic /
November 7, 2019
When sea otters in Alaska were diagnosed with phocine distemper virus (PDV) in 2004, scientists were confused. The pathogen in the Morbillivirus genus that contains viruses like measles had then only been found in Europe and on the eastern coast of North America.
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on National Geographic
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