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 Mothers and Young Struggle as Arctic Warms
NEW YORK (January 18, 2017) – A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and partners reveals for the first time the ways in which wild weather swings and extreme icing events are negatively impacting the largest land mammal of the Earth’s polar realms—the muskoxen. The paper demonstrates that while this denizen of the Arctic and other cold-adapted species have spectacular adaptations, the previously unknown effects of rain-on-snow events, winter precipitation, and ice tidal surges are costly for the animals, if not deadly.
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WCS: The World Needs Unified Action on Climate Change

NEW YORK (June 1, 2017) – WCS released a statement in response to the announced withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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