Climate Change Becomes a Rapid, Unplanned Survival Experiment for Animal Species

For real biologists, climate change is like a massive, unplanned experiment, one that may be too fast and strange for some species to survive it.

Some animals are already in the middle of it.  As Arctic ice shelves melt, polar bears are ransacking seabird nests to sustain themselves.  Migrating geese are exploring valuable but previously unseen real estate, due to melting permafrost.

But whether these adaptation attempts will succeed remains a big question, researchers say.  As temperatures rise, entirely new environments are forming, changing how species interact with each other and their surroundings in often unexpected ways.

Climate Change Becomes a Rapid, Unplanned Survival Experiment for Animal Species