Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
Endangered species protections in 2012 due to climate change.
Arctic animals endangered by climate change. In addition to increased rates of disease and degraded habitats climate change is also causing changes in species themselves which threaten their survival. Image source Polar Bear. And two terrestrial mammals cariboureindeer and muskox.
The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the speed of the global average which is shrinking. Adélie penguins which rely on krill for food might be among the animals most vulnerable to the effects of climate change as they creep into the Antarctic. This article is more than 15 years old.
When it comes to coping with. The polar bear the walrus the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years says WWF.
Bearded seals were given US. Three seabirds Kittlitzs murrelet spectacled eider and ivory gull. To adequately address this crisis we must urgently reduce carbon pollution and prepare for the consequences of global warming which we are.
As the Earth heats up and the ice disappears scientists estimate that two-thirds of polar bears could be wiped out by 2050. Today climate change is the biggest threat facing the Arctic and its wildlife. Rising temperatures have led to ecological changes including the migration of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to Arctic rivers while behavioural changes in species include earlier breeding times for North American tree swallows.
Adapt or die. B r a d l e y K l a p p e r i n G e n e v a. Without urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions the world will continue to feel the effects of a warming Arctic.