Extreme Snows in Greenland Caused Ecosystem's "Reproductive Collapse"

Rising temperature and climate variability is making it hard for arctic animals to cope and are not adapting quickly enough to these changes. After a recent climate variation, an ecosystem wide reproductive collapse for pretty much all plants and animals. The peak growing season in a place like Greenland is normally during July however, most areas were still covered in snows at that time causing offspring to born late. Larger species like arctic fox have clearly been affected more as researchers could not find a single one.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-snows-in-greenland-caused-ecosystems-reproductive-collapse/

Climate variability is only predicted to get worse in the coming years. I feel that if we would do more to prevent these kind of changes that we would be able to make a large impact in saving ecosystems like this.

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  1. AnonymousNovember 11, 2019 at 6:43 AM

    I agree Zach! I think the Greenland mention was a good fact to bring and its interesting how the climate change is affecting the world.

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