Wildlife Responds Fast to Climate Change

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Plants and animals are responding up to three times faster to climate change than previously estimated, as wildlife shifts to cooler altitudes and latitudes, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists have reported this decade on individual species that moved toward the poles or uphill as their traditional habitats shifted due to global warming, but this study analyzed data on over 2,000 species to get a more comprehensive picture

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Wildlife Responds Fast to Climate Change