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By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- Female walruses traditionally like to spend the summer lounging on slabs of sea ice with their young, occasionally dipping into shallow Arctic waters for a fishy treat. But over the past few weeks, thousands of these mammals have given up their free-floating lifestyle and taken up residence along the Alaska side of the Chukchi Sea. An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Pacific walruses -- mainly mothers and calves -- are resting along the coastline, gathered together in tightly clustered pods, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (Bulls normally splash around the Bering Sea in ...
CIA Revives Data-Sharing Program With Climate Scientists
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTop scientists and spies are once again collaborating in an effort to use government equipment, including spy satellites and other classified sensors, to study climate change, the New York Times reports. The partnership revives a program shut down by the Bush administration and which now has the strong backing of CIA Director Leon Panetta. Over the past year the scientists have examined images of Arctic sea ice taken by reconnaissance satellites, looking for differences between summer melts and warming trends. Scientists working on the images said they were very useful because they had no ...
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