Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
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Adapt or die.
Arctic animals endangered by climate change. Without urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions the world will continue to feel the effects of a warming Arctic. 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.
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. Mon 31 Jan 2005 1044 EST. Arctic animals cope with climate change.
Climate change may also be altering the currents and nutrient cycling in some parts of the bearded seals range which may be affecting the abundance of the fish and shellfish the species preys upon. 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.
This article is more than 15 years old. But the ringed seal the smallest Arctic seal species cannot. Four whales gray beluga bowhead and narwhal.
The polar bear the walrus the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. Climate change poses a fundamental threat to the places species and peoples livelihoods WWF works to protect. When it comes to coping with.
Bearded seals were given US. Climate change is driving polar bears from the safety of sea ice and on to hazardous dry land and into more conflict with humans. Today climate change is the biggest threat facing the Arctic and its wildlife.