In the frozen, windswept reaches of the North Atlantic, life begins in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Here, on drifting sheets of sea ice, harp seal pups are born into a world defined by ...

Let us all agree right now: Baby harp seals -- those doe-eyed sausagelike bundles of puffy white blubber -- are just phenomenally, face-meltingly cute. So adorable and so helpless and so sweet looking ...

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Warming in the North Atlantic Ocean has decreased winter sea ice and increased the death rate for baby harp seals over the past three decades, according to a new study. Winter sea ice cover in harp ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Young harp seals off the eastern coast of Canada are at much higher risk of getting stranded than adult seals because of shrinking sea ice cover caused by recent warming in the North ...

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Everyone keeps talking about how janky the Comdex trade show was this year, but it couldn’t have been that bad judging by all the weird, offbeat gadgets that surfaced there, like the Peeg, which we ...

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