Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth The climate is warming. Nature is on the run.As humans accelerate global warming--while laying waste to the…
Specifikacia Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
The climate is warming. Nature is on the run.As humans accelerate global warming--while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness for farmland--animals and plants flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. Humans are destroying habitats and spreading environmental toxins.
Sea creatures move an average of 45 miles a year--land creatures, an average of 11 miles. And when even these places become too hot and inhospitable, wildlife is left with only one path to survival: an often harrowing journey toward the poles in search of refuge, as they race to find a new home in a warming world.Tropical zones lose their inhabitants, beavers settle in Alaska, and gigantic shoals of fish disappear--just to reappear in front of foreign coastlines. Some animals, such as fish, beavers, and