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PETER FROST says, whatever President Trump might say, climate change has reduced Arctic reindeer herds by more than half
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JUST as I was getting ready to celebrate my atheist Christmas I heard some awful news.  

Climate change over the last 20 years has more than halved the world population of wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). 

Exactly the same species is known as caribou in North America, but they are doing just as badly, says a new scientific report. 

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