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Published online 10 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030303-13
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Rain kills reindeer
Climate change could starve ungulates and their herders.
Rain can kill in cold climes. The reindeer, caribou and elk that many indigenous peoples depend upon starve when it rains on snow-covered land in Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska.
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