https://phys.org/news/2018-10-climate-age-denial.html

The collection features two articles by social scientists who offer different perspectives on enlisting narratives to convey climate change science and one by marine mammal experts who set the record straight on the likely impacts of climate change on Arctic wildlife.

"Marine mammals are ecosystem sentinels, capable of reflecting ocean variability through changes in their ecology and body condition," argue Sue Moore, a biological oceanographer, and Randall Reeves, a marine mammal biologist, in "Tracking Arctic Marine Mammal Resilience in an Era of Rapid Ecosystem Alteration." They propose a framework that adds ecological (e.g., geographic range and behavior) and physiological indicators to traditional demographics to provide a more comprehensive view of the health of populations. The authors hope that their framework, which can feed into existing global ocean surveys, offers "a path toward sustainability through improved prediction, more precaution, and wiser policy in this era of global environmental change."