As Tim Blair reports:
Alaskan sea otters are starving! Why? Because there’s too much ice:
An unbudging sheath of sea ice has blocked off the waters where the Alaska Peninsula’s sea otters forage, forcing the starving animals inland on a search for food and making them easy prey for wolves and humans.
Some otters have waddled or slid on their bellies for several miles onto the tundra near Port Heiden, where they have been attacked by dogs, killed for their pelts or have died of malnourishment ...
Similar freeze-outs have been documented since the early 1970s.
Poor little guys; if only that ice could be melted somehow.
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