The scary of climate change: The coldest animals cannot live anymore

Climate change has caused animals to die massively when temperatures rise suddenly in some areas.

In India, where temperatures reach 46 degrees Celsius, a herd of monkeys dies when they cannot find water. In Australia, too high temperatures cause a series of bats to die, falling from the sky. Meanwhile in the Bering Sea, ancient seagulls have starved to death due to abundant food sources that have migrated to cooler waters.

And most recently, in the land that seems to be unaffected by global warming - the subarctic region - many reindeer also suffer the same fate.

Starvation for climate change

In Norway's Svalbard Islands, bodies of more than 200 reindeer were found by a group of three scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute (Norwegian Polar Institute - NPI) in the annual census of dynamic populations. object.

The body of a wild deer was found by a team of three scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in the annual census of the animal population, The Guardian newspaper, July 30, 2019.

Climate change causes the temperature to spike, causing animals to die in mass.

NPI stresses that this is the first time the institute has recorded such a mass death within 40 years of tracking their reindeer population.

Winter in the Arctic takes place from October to March and scientists think these reindeer were starved to death during that time. And the cause is nothing but global warming .

According to The Independent, Svalbard, the capital of Longyearbyen, the world's most northern town, is believed to be the fastest warming of any other human living area on earth.

The sudden warming temperature in the area leads to a sudden increase in rainfall. Rain then encounters freezing cold temperatures creating a thick ice in the reindeer's living area. And it is this thick ice that makes reindeer unable to access vegetation as their source of food.

NPI scientists also hypothesized that a large number of baby reindeer born last year may contribute to an unusually high mortality rate, because smaller and weaker children are often individuals. first die. However, the main cause of mass deaths this year is believed by scientists to come from global warming.

The Arctic reindeer population has fallen 56% in the past two decades, a 2018 report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed. Without grazing reindeer, other invasive and exotic plants can spread across the Arctic tundra, another serious impact caused by warming.

1. Over 200 shockingly hungry Norwegian reindeer