Showing posts with label species extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label species extinction. Show all posts

Monday, December 29, 2008

Global Warming Causing the Moose Population to Die off in the Upper Midwest

Tim Jones reports in the Los Angeles Times: "It wasn't long ago that thousands of moose roamed northwest Minnesota. But in two decades, the number of antlered, bony-kneed beasts from the North Woods has plummeted from 4,000 to fewer than a hundred.They didn't move away. They just died.The primary culprit, scientists say, is climate change..."When moose are in trouble, they don't move. They die," said Rolf Peterson, a researc