Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
With the Arctic winter of 2017-18 the warmest on record researchers are finding a troubling range of climate change impacts on wildlife including wolverines reindeer snowy owls and more.
Arctic animals endangered by climate change. B r a d l e y K l a p p e r i n G e n e v a. The report highlights climate change impacts on 17 species. Endangered species protections in 2012 due to climate change.
Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years says WWF. The polar bear the walrus the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. 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. Climate change poses a fundamental threat to the places species and peoples livelihoods WWF works to protect. Image source Polar Bear.
Mon 31 Jan 2005 1044 EST. Today climate change is the biggest threat facing the Arctic and its wildlife. Rising sea levels changes in climate and precipitation patterns increasing severe weather events and loss of fish stocks birds and marine mammals.
Without urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions the world will continue to feel the effects of a warming Arctic. Polar bears for example depend on summer sea ice to hunt seals. Three seabirds Kittlitzs murrelet spectacled eider and ivory gull.
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. This article is more than 15 years old. Four whales gray beluga bowhead and narwhal.