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Melting Sea Ice Pushes Walruses to the Brink

“Haulout” — The New Yorker Documentary

A lone scientist on the coast of the Siberian Arctic finds that warming seas have taken a toll on the walrus migration, as documented in a film by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev. “Haulout” is nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2023 Academy Awards.

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