With temperatures trending upward across much of the world, ecologists are keen to understand how global warming might sway the predator-prey dynamics that have emerged over thousands of years.
Sharks are suffering due to demand for their fins and meat, habitat degradation, climate change, pollution, plastics, urbanization, alterations in water quality and temperature.
Millions of acres of Arctic Alaska stand open and available for petroleum exploration, but industry's eyes have been focused for 40 years on the wild, wildlife-rich, 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
