Climate Change Affects Biodiversity

The World Resources Institute reports that there is a link between biodiversity and climate change, as rapid global warming can affect an ecosystems chances to adapt naturally. This highlights the importance of attempts to do things about it, such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Buenos Aires Conference.

The weather phenomenon, El Niño, having wreaked much havoc around the world, coupled with deforestation and other unregulated activities by many countries, are leading to huge disaster zones, such as that in Mexico, which houses a whopping great 10% of all the species on this earth.

Check out this site’s global warming section. It has more about

• The various implications on water and forests
• What influential governments and large corporations are doing to help (or not)
• Major world government meetings and protocols and the political obstacles that have plagued them
• Great links to additional sources of information

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