Seals to Save Environment

The environment is in need of saving, for humans as well as the amazing creatures that inhabit planet Earth. Now Norwegian elephant seals may save not only the Antarctic but the entire planet and its creatures like this tiny European tree frog (Nuremberg Zoo, Germany).

TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica – Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, waddles the elephant seal.

The fat-snouted pinniped, two tons of blubber and roar, is plunging to its usual frigid depths these days in the service of climate science, and of scientists' budgets.

"It would take years and millions and millions of dollars for a research ship to do what they're doing," Norwegian scientist Kim Holmen said of the instrument-equipped seals... More>>