How Many Animals Have Gone Extinct Due To Global Warming

SPECIES EXTINCTION FROM GLOBAL WARMING

Climate change is accelerating the 6th extinction

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Earth biodiversity has declined alarmingly in half a century: more 25,000 species, nearly a third of those known, are in danger of disappearing. Climate change will be responsible for 8% of these.

In the last 60 years, the population of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) has dropped by 60%.

In the final sixty years, the population of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) has dropped by 60%.

River dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) are in danger of extinction because of pollution.

The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is an endangered species because it is finding it hard to survive the increasingly longer and hotter summers.

The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is an endangered species considering it is finding it hard to survive the increasingly longer and hotter summers.

IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION: FROM HUNTER TO HUNTED

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"Human being activity, the consumption of fossil fuels, the acidification of the oceans, pollution, deforestation, and forced migrations threaten life forms of all kinds. It is estimated that 1-third of corals, freshwater molluscs, sharks, and rays, 1-quaternary of all mammals, one-fifth of all reptiles, and one-sixth of all birds are heading towards extinction". This resounding paragraph taken from the volume The Sixth Extinction (2015) by announcer and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert is a adept summary of the current situation of the natural biodiversity on planet World.

Afterward this publication, the scientific customs began to discuss and written report the sixth extinction. The previous five extinctions had occurred over the last 450 million years, due mainly to meteorites and volcanic eruptions. The sixth extinction, however, has to do with human being beings. A report past the University of Connecticut External link, opens in new window. (U.s.a.), published in the Science journal, indicates that climate modify is accelerating this, as climate modify by itself will cause the disappearance of nearly 8% of the current species.

Ample evidence demonstrating the reduction in the natural biodiversity of our planet tin can be found in the Red List of Threatened Species External link, opens in new window. from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In its 2017 edition, this list at present includes 87,967 species, of which 25,062 are in danger of extinction. In the oceans, to cite just 1 such example, the rise in temperature and the acidification of water are turning coral reefs — previously lush underwater meadows full of algae, fish, molluscs, and crustaceans — into whitish deserts.

For their part, European scientists have been studying the reduction in the mass of flying insects in natural parks, and the information speaks for itself: 75% since 1990. Climate change and pesticides appear to be the main causes of this significant decline. The reject in the number of bees is a major concern. The Department of Agriculture in the United States has counted 2.v 1000000 hives in 2015 (date of the last report) compared to over 5 one thousand thousand in 1998. Who will pollinate the plants that feed us? Co-ordinate to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the Un (FAO), 100 species of crops provide 90% of humanity's food, and 71% of these are pollinated past bees.

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