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- On Thin Ice. Kellaher, Karen // Scholastic News -- Edition 3;1/11/2010, Vol. 66 Issue 12, p2
The article focuses on the problem of walrus habitat destruction in the North Pole due to global warming.
- Super SCIENCE JANUARY 2007. Honovich, Nancy // Scholastic SuperScience (Teacher's Edition);Jan2007, Vol. 18 Issue 4, pT1
The publication presents a teacher's guide to the issues, topics and suggested activities featured in the January 2007 issue of Scholastic SuperScience (Teacher's Edition). Some of these topics include water vapor and condensation, the effect of global warming on Pacific walruses and roles of...
- Melting Away. Walters, Jennifer Marino // Scholastic News -- Edition 5/6;12/7/2009, Vol. 78 Issue 10, p4
The article describes the threat posed by the melting of sea ice in the frigid Arctic region to the population and habitat of the Pacific walrus as of December 2009. In effect, it states, the disappearing ice leads in walruses gathering in large numbers of land. The melting is attributed by...
- SCHOLASTIC News TEACHER'S EDITION, Vol. 66 No. 12 January 11, 2010. Greenberg, Glenn // Scholastic News -- Edition 3 (Teacher's Edition);1/11/2010, Vol. 66 Issue 12, pT1
The article presents lesson plans for elementary education in the U.S. which teach various topics including the effect of global warming on walruses that live in the Arctic, Bernice King, daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and the leader of an organization, and the Little...
- FEELING the HEAT. Bogo, Jennifer // Audubon;Dec2003, Vol. 105 Issue 4, p56
Presents information on animals and plants in the Arctic region being affected by global warming. Effect of warmer Arctic springs on the musk oxen; Problems encountered by walruses due to the decreasing summer sea ice; Risks posed by climatic changes to the breeding of spectacled elder birds.
- Pole star for walruses. Fox, David // TVB Europe;Feb2008, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p16
The article reports on the use of a high definition camera from Polecam in the movie "Arctic Tale." The camera has been used to follow the lives of a walrus and a polar bear from adolescence to maturity and parenthood in which the effect of global warming was showed. Adam Ravetch, the movie's...
- PICTURE OF THE WEEK. // Weekly Reader News - Senior;11/9/2007, Vol. 86 Issue 9, p2
An image of the walrus, named Akituusaq, born at the Coney Island aquarium in New York City, is presented.
- Past and present distribution of walruses in Svalbard Wiig, Oystein; Gjertz, Ian // Arctic;Mar1994, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p34
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- And then there were none. Bruemmer, F. // International Wildlife;Jan92, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p20
Traces the history and eventual demise of `southern' walruses in Quebec's Gulf of St. Lawrence. At one time the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf had the greatest concentration of walruses in the world. Gulf marine life; Accounts of walruses; Trade uses; Remains.
