Rudolph Is Shrinking: Climate Change Is Starving Santa's Reindeer

Rudolph Is Shrinking: Climate Change Is Starving Santa's Reindeer

Reindeer are shrinking, and it's not because they're on a diet for the holidays. Rather, climate change is making it difficult for them - and their gestating fetuses - to survive extreme winters, new research shows. The findings are the culmination of a 16-year study on the reindeer living in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located between Norway and the Arctic.

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