Arctic Birds More Vulnerable to Climate Change as Their Habitat Continues to Warm

While it is known that the ocean absorbs more than 90% of the planet's heat, it would be the end for some seabird species of the Arctic if waters continue to warm as much as twice the globe's rate.
Unfortunately, Arctic seabirds are less tolerant to heat and more vulnerable to climate change, a new study found. McGill University researchers revealed that cold-adapted Arctic species such as the thick-billed murre are 'especially vulnerable to heat stress' due to human-induced climate change.
(Photo : Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN ISLANDS - 2015/07/19: A Thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is swimming at the Alkefjellet bird cliff at Lomfjordhalvøya in Ny-Friesland at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.

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