Polar bear inbreeding and bird 'divorces': Weird ways climate change is affecting animal species

The Associated Press ^ | February 12, 2022 | ByJulia Jacobo

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The world's biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns.

And while that "doom and gloom" is the typical discourse surrounding how climate change is affecting biodiversity, another interesting aspect of the warming temperatures is how different species have been adapting over the decades, as the warming progresses, experts say.

Here are some unusual ways climate change is affecting nature:

Higher temperature extremes may increase the risk of outbreaks of tuberculosis in Kalahari meerkats by increasing physiological stress, as well as the movement of males between group, according to a study published in Nature Monday.

Albatrosses, a monogamous species famous for mating for life, are seeing higher "divorce" rates as temperatures warm, a study published in the Royal Society Journal in November found.

Polar bear populations were found to have up to a 10% loss in genetic diversity over a 20-year period as a result of inbreeding due to habitat fragmentation, a recent study published in Royal Society Journals in September found.

Researchers who monitored gray seals in the U.K.'s Skomer Marine Conservation Zone for three decades found that climate change has caused older seal mothers to give birth to pups earlier.

Birds in undisturbed areas of the Amazon rainforest, the largest in the world, are experiencing physical changes to dryer, hotter climates, according to research published in Science Advances in November.

[Keyhopper]

Is there anything climate change can’t do?
And the only cure is raising taxes to fix it.
Let me guess, because science😁

[5th MEB]

Well if you ask an ENVIRONAZI they will tell you that it was all those cavemen barbecuing outside that started all those forest fires and caused “GLOBA WARMING”.

And they believe that!

[5th MEB]

72 degrees Fahrenheit!

I see all, and know all.

snicker-snicker

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