Climate Change Update: Climate change is affecting all aspects of our Earth’s ecosystem, from simple plant life to human beings

Effects Of Climate Change: Amphibian Survival Threatened | Global Animal: "A large potential range will continue to exist for six other species, but they will be able to access just half of that range. Four species are likely to become vulnerable or endangered as a result of climate changes.

The biggest obstacles facing the amphibians are not mountain ranges and other physical barriers, the study found. Instead, it’s the unpredictable nature of projected climate changes that threatens them most. Instead of getting gradually and consistently warmer, temperatures will roller coaster in ways too extreme for amphibians to deal with.

“Every time it gets warmer, they can move, but when it gets cooler again, they can’t move far enough and they get stuck,” Early said. “It’s like taking two steps forward and one step back.”

Butterflies, reptiles, plants and all sorts of other life forms face the same issues, said John Wiens, an evolutionary ecologist and herpetologist at Stony Brook University in New York. And that’s on top of the challenges they already have to deal with, including habitat destruction and diseases."

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