...been the new normal in recent years. "We didn't observe such a situation when we had ice in the Chukchi," said Anatoly Kochnev, a scientist who monitors walrus haulouts on the Russian coast. Kochnev, along with three indigenous men who are...

...stampedes. Many of the youngest and weakest animals, mostly calves born in the spring, were crushed. Biologist Anatoly Kochnev of Russia's Pacific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography estimated 3,000 to 4,000 walruses out of population...