Climate change is a serious challenge for all of planet Earth. It has thrown off the balance of all of the world, putting countless species on the brink of extinction. Thankfully, some species may have found ways to make their chances of survival better. However, they might not be able to make it.
Some will change their behaviors in response to soaring global temperatures; they might, say, reproduce earlier in the year, when it’s cooler. Others may even evolve to cope—perhaps by shrinking, because smaller frames lose heat more quickly.
For the moment, though, scientists have little idea how these adaptations may be playing out. A new paper in Nature Communications, coauthored by more than 60 researchers, aims to bring a measure of clarity. By sifting through 10,000 previous studies, the researchers found that the climatic chaos we’ve sowed may just be too intense... Some species seem to be adapting, yes, but they aren’t doing so fast enough. That spells, in a word, doom.
More details on Ars Technica.
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