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Scientific Study Predicts Quarter Of Earth’s Species Will Be Lost By 2050 If Global Warming Is Not Abated
Results of this scientific study, detailed in the journal Conservation Biology, reveal projections related to 25 biodiversity “hotspots” including Southwest Australia, Brazil, Tropical Andes, Cape Floristic region of South Africa, and Argentina. These areas make up only 1.4 percent of Earth’s land, however, these “hotspots” contain 44 percent of our planet’s plant species and 35 percent of Earth’s vertebrate species. One scientific model, forecasting a possible doubling of current carbon dioxide levels would result in a potential loss of 56,000 plant and 3,700 animal species by 2050 in these hotspots.
"This study provides even stronger scientific evidence that global warming will result in catastrophic species loss across the planet." said Jay Malcolm, University of Toronto. "These species lose their last options if we allow climate change to continue unchecked," said Lara Hansen, chief climate scientist WWF. "We must avoid dangerous climate change—and that means we have got to reduce carbon dioxide emissions." Quarter of species gone by 2050, study predicts
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Polar Bears Dying Due To Global Warming(Times Article December 18 2005)Scientists have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.Researchers have found bears are having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to shore. Their sea journeys leave them vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia or being swamped by waves.According to the new research four bear carcasses were found floating in one month in a single patch of sea off the north coast of Alaska, where average summer temperatures have increased by 2-3C degrees since 1950’s.The scientists believe such drownings are becoming widespread across the Arctic.In Hudson Bay, Canada, the site of the most southerly polar bears, a study by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the Canadian Wildlife Service to be published in 2006 will show the population fell 22% from 1,194 in 1987 to 935 in 2004.New evidence from field researchers working for the World Wildlife Fund in Yakutia on the northeast coast of Russia, has also shown the region’s first evidence of cannibalism among bears competing for food supplies.In September 2004, when the ice cap had retreated a record 160 miles north of Alaska, 51 bears were spotted, of which 20% were seen in the open sea, swimming as far as 60 miles off shore.In their search for food, polar bears are also having to roam further south, rummaging in the dustbins of Canadian homes. |
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