Shrinking sea ice threatens natural highways for caribou, plants
Both furry and flowery travelers face trouble in a warmer world
![Left: Peary caribou; Right: mountain avens flowers](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/092916_sm_arctic-passageway_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
ICE TRAVELERS Shrinking sea ice matters to land dwellers too, as ice bridges and transport dwindles for migrating Peary caribou (left) and seed dispersing mountain avens flowers (right).
From left: L. David Mech/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0); Steinsplitter/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)