Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
To adequately address this crisis we must urgently reduce carbon pollution and prepare for the consequences of global warming which we are.
Arctic animals endangered by climate change. Bearded seals were given US. As Arctic sea ice vanishes bearded seals may vanish along with it. 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.
The survival of the polar bear is threatened by climate change. Rising sea levels changes in climate and precipitation patterns increasing severe weather events and loss of fish stocks birds and marine mammals. Peter Prokosch GRID.
Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years says WWF. 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. Image source Polar Bear.
Three seabirds Kittlitzs murrelet spectacled eider and ivory gull. 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.
Arctic Animals and a Changing Climate Learn about the effects of a changing climate on the Arctic ecosystem and four of its well-known mammals. As the Earth heats up and the ice disappears scientists estimate that two-thirds of polar bears could be wiped out by 2050. Without urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions the world will continue to feel the effects of a warming Arctic.
Barnacle geese pictured in the scientific base of Ny Alesund in the Svalbard archipelago. The polar bear the walrus the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. Changes in the cryosphere dominate the physical changes that already affect these animals but increasing air temperatures changes in precipitation a.