Russian-American Team Goes to Extremes to Answer Pressing Conservation Questions
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 15:21
in Earth & Climate
The Wrangel Island Federal Reserve, a remote island some 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, was recently the site of an expedition to understand the impacts of climate change and polar bear predation on muskoxen--a Pleistocene relic that survived the woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos that once roamed this northern Siberian tundra.