Research shows how extinction from climate change has occurred in hundreds of plants and animals around the world. Out of 976 species of plants and animals, 47% have experienced local extinction. The future of plants and animals are a grey area. It is hard to tell which species of specific organisms are going to be affected by climate change. But we humans can tell that the future of the organism living on the planet are looking grimmer and grimmer as time goes on. Something humans can learn by local extinctions being studied is that they are the earth trying to tell us that something has to change or else it's all going to go bad.
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Researchers at the department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have came up with a way to chemically modify sawdust to make it an oil-extracting, buoyant material. These to characteristics make it a desirable for cleaning up oil in the arctic. This new material is not truly beneficial now but as the ice retreats in the northern hemisphere, oil corperations are going to starting servicing ways to start abusing the arctic for resources. So with this invention of sawdust- absorbing material, we can help fight any accidents in the future.
A study from Iowa State University suggests that not only the energy created from wind turbines, but turbulence resulting from these turbines benefit crops. These turbines around the crops were able to make it a bit cooler during the day and about a degree warmer at night. This benefits the crops because it suppresses the formation of dew and dries the crop to fight mold and fungi from growing. Factors like clean and energy and benefiting surrounding crops helps influence farmers to hopefully hop off the fossil fuel train and hop on the clean energy one.
The power from wind farms has contributed to preventing a whopping 36 million tonnes of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels. This energy created by wind farms was not expected to be as helpful to the environment than was expected. With this it can sway people to use wind power instead of environmentally bad sources of energy. With the use of wind power in the future we can hopefully see it grow to continue to cut emissions. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161212101131.htm New studies show how we used to not be able to pin the rate of a glacial movement on specific ones but now after this new study, retreat is almost 99% from climate change. The study helps shows that climate change is real and it's not a hoax the Chinese made up. The article then supports the claim by explaining how after looking at 37 mountains around the world, scientists now can connect climate change with the retreating of glaciers 99% of the time. This article is important because it shows how climate change is a real issues and that measures need to be taken to try and prevent it.
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