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Reindeer are eating seaweed to survive climate change, scientists say
Me, I'll crank up the AC -- if it happens.
foxnews.com/science/reindeer-eating-seaweed-climate-change [foxnews.com]
Named after the group of Norwegian islands they’ve lived on for 5,000 years, these 20,000–plus reindeer are now eating seaweed to survive the increasingly warm winters. According to researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Centre for Biodiversity Dynamic, the reindeer are turning to seaweed because the plants they normally eat are becoming harder to get to.
More rain is now falling instead of snow, which causes the snow on the ground to freeze over (also known as “icing”), burying the tundra vegetation under thick ice.
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