Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
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Arctic animals endangered by climate change. Climate change is driving polar bears from the safety of sea ice and on to hazardous dry land and into more conflict with humans. The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the speed of the global average which is shrinking. But the ringed seal the smallest Arctic seal species cannot.
Today climate change is the biggest threat facing the Arctic and its wildlife. From polar bears in the Arctic to marine turtles off the coast of Africa our planets diversity of life is at risk from the changing climate. Four ice seals ringed bearded harp and ribbon seals.
Endangered species protections in 2012 due to climate change. Polar bears are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN with climate change a key factor in their decline. As Arctic sea ice vanishes bearded seals may vanish along with it.
In addition to increased rates of disease and degraded habitats climate change is also causing changes in species themselves which threaten their survival. 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. Four whales gray beluga bowhead and narwhal.
To adequately address this crisis we must urgently reduce carbon pollution and prepare for the consequences of global warming which we are. Without urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions the world will continue to feel the effects of a warming Arctic. This article is more than 15 years old.
Mon 31 Jan 2005 1044 EST. Arctic animals cope with climate change. Animals in the Arctic including reindeer and golden eagles are migrating earlier due to climate change say researchers who have gathered a huge amount of data to study the behaviour of 86.