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Climate pushing lemmings to cliff

Climate change is bringing wetter winters to
southern Norway, a bleak prospect for the
region's lemmings.

Scientists found that numbers of the animals
no longer vary over a regular cycle, as they
did until a decade ago; there are no more
bumper years.

The snow is not stable enough, they think,
to provide winter shelter.

Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers
suggest the lack of Norwegian lemmings is
affecting other animals such as foxes and owls.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7711709.stm