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ScienceDaily: The nerpa, also known as the Baikal seal, is the only seal that lives exclusively in fresh water. This earless seal can be found in just one place, Russia's Lake Baikal, where it is at the top of the food web. And now, Wellesley scientists have found that the teeth of this particular seal may hold the strongest evidence of the effects of decades of environmental pollution, nuclear testing, and climate change on Lake Baikal -- the deepest, oldest, and most bio-diverse lake in the world.
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Russia: Seal teeth offer glimpse into the environmental past of Russia’s Lake Baikal
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 21st, 2014
Posted in Water Conservation