Thursday, 21. December 2006
Topic: NATURE - on December 21, 2006 at 10:11:00 AM CET
Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating
Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.
In a December in which bumblebees, butterflies and even swallows have been on the wing in Britain, European brown bears have been lumbering through the forests of Spain's Cantabrian mountains, when normally they would already be in their long, annual sleep.
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