NATURE | A Mystery in Alaska | A Tragedy Unfolding | PBS

The Steller's sea lion population of western Alaska has declined by about 80 percent over the past 20 years. Are the animals starving to death, or eating too much of the wrong food? Are they falling victim to killer whales in unusual numbers? Is pollution to blame? Or is there some other influence, perhaps resulting from a changing climate or altered ocean currents, that is causing their demise?

Naturalist filmmaker Shane Moore, who has been working in the Alaskan wilderness for much of the past 10 years, brings a sense of urgency and new understanding to this puzzle in A MYSTERY IN ALASKA, airing on Thirteen/WNET New York's NATURE series, Sunday, July 1 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

For more information, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alaska/index.html

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[ehassen]

i feel like much of our society is set up to plunder natural resources rather than to be good stewards of it.

[sourmanofcoal]

the end of the world is coming

[KennTollens]

Something is eating them

[Tinhh]

Human beings are like cancer cells that became self aware.

[Khal03]

The Missile deal in Cali, apparently has some strange NAZI implications. You can follow along while every imaginable opinion has been put forth and some very damaging evidence against US GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. We thought this was gonna die, fast. It looks like the world is a little bit shaken up by what is being revealed and it simply isn't on TV so most don't know.

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[fdfederation]

Where are the Eyewitness episodes that taught about nature?! I also love this show very much.

[realistromeo]

Ay dont get me wrong, i like a little highliner fishstick once in a while, but you have to admit, modern (industrialized) fishing methods destroy fish stocks, it's a prevelent and distrurbing trend, especialy in international waters, seems like there is so much mismanagment from salmon to halubut to cod ect..... it's to feed the increasing demand for fish, whatever the cost.

[wckdclwn911]

@realistromeo what you call largescale greed, we call putting food on the table. Natures balance and food chain includes including humans ability to eat also. Some like you falsly believe that if humans are taken out of the equation, that all other creatures of the earth will live happily ever after. Hey, maybe the problem is that there are too many killer whales, its a theory, because there is no shortage of them up here

[rwalden2007]

The best thing that could happen to fishing is if Greenpeace would go away and die and just let nature take its course.

[dalepoulette]

"white mans" fault.

[realistromeo]

Largescale greed is at the heart of commercial fishing, if only they knew how to "manage" their catches and quotas.. how many stocks are in danger of depletion! if one catch is gone wel they just move to the next.

i hear patagonian toothfish has a nice flavor.