Unique snails suffer under climate change

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Banff springs snails are found in only one place on Earth. That would be Banff Hot Springs, in Alberta, Canada. But climate change may be causing the springs to dry up. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Dwayne Lepitzki, a conservation biologist with Parks Canada in Banff, who’s been studying the snails for 14 years.

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