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Nearly one-tenth of hemisphere’s mammals are unlikely to outrun climate change.

A safe haven could be out of reach for 9% of the Western Hemisphere’s mammals, and as much as 40% in certain regions, because the animals just won’t move swiftly enough to outpace climate change.

For the past decade scientists have outlined new areas suitable for mammals likely to be displaced as climate change first makes their current habitat inhospitable, then unlivable. For the first time a new study considers whether mammals will actually be able to move to those new areas before they are overrun by climate change. read more

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They’re not doing it by talking to their students about climate change in their classrooms, they’re doing it at the END of the school year, by releasing the exotic pets they’re kept in their science labs all year. Since most of these creatures are not native to the area where they’re "poured out," they can become "invasive."
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Tiger’s roar may soon be a memory – Tigers will soon join the group of animals (and humans?) that may soon be seen no more. But some researchers have used hidden cameras to film some of them in surprising places.

Most of the world’s last remaining tigers–long decimated by overhunting, logging, and wildlife trade–are now clustered in just 6% of their available habitat. 42 ‘source sites’ scattered across Asia that are now the last hope and greatest priority for the conservation and recovery of the world’s largest cat.
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Something that happened to the dinosaurs 137 million years ago is right out of Whitley Strieber’s Superstorm, and it could be about to happen again. In Superstorm, the Earth experiences dramatic cooling when the Gulf Stream stops. Scientists now have evidence that this exact scenario happened 137 million years ago, when the earth experienced dramatic heating due to a massive methane spike, then suddenly cycled to icy conditions when the heat-trapping methane dissipated. The changes appears to have been extremely sudden, and similar changes that have taken place more recently suggest that Europe went from being a temperate zone to entering the last ice age in just 30 days.
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