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Scientific American's 60 Second Science.

I'm Christopher Intagata.

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, meaning more and more sea ice is melting every day. is

the rest of the planet, meaning more and more sea ice is melting every year. It's really concerning the rapid loss of sea ice

that they're for a lot of reasons.

Tracy Goldstein, a researcher and conservationist at UC Davis.

She says one of those reasons is animals like ice seals need the ice, to haul out on and

give birth.

Another reason, as the Arctic warms, the fish the seals eat,

may be moving to deeper and colder waters,

so the seals have to travel farther to hunt them.

So the combination of all of that over time

is probably going to affect their health and their body condition,

and that will make them not just... to affect their health and their body condition,

and that will make them not just underweight,

but also more susceptible to other diseases.

And those diseases may also be encroaching

upon Arctic marine mammals because spotting a trend here

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