80,000 reindeer starve to death due to climate change
Over 80,000 reindeer in Arctic Russia have starved to death over the past decade owing to human-induced climate change, Finland-based researchers said. These were mainly in 2006 and 2013. In the two years, November's unusually warm temperatures led to heavy rains, turning the soft snow cover into hard ice and cutting off reindeer's food supply of lichen and other vegetation.