Leonardo DiCaprio Instagram – In 2011, scientists tagged a Southern Elephant Seal, fitting him with a camera to simply capture his journey from Kerguelen in the far southern Indian Ocean to Antarctica. Instead, scientists stumbled on a potential climate threat as the seal deviated from his normal route, appearing just offshore of the Denman glacier.
The Denman glacier is notoriously difficult to study because of its tricky location and the fact that the glacier is often locked in by extensive sea ice. The seal, however, provided early evidence that the glacier could be a major threat to global coastlines, seals do not normally swim near the glacier, but this seal did so, swimming through waters that were just above freezing, which is considered too warm for the area, threatening to melt the glacier’s ice and raise sea levels.
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📷: @postclimate | Posted on 16/Feb/2023 04:12:57



