Which Places Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change?

Scientific American: Spring comes sooner. The rain falls too hard or not enough. Warmer weather causes animals, plants, microbes and fungi to move in new directions. Such shifts are just some of the changes already happening as a result of increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, otherwise known as climate change. But which places—Arctic tundra or Amazon rainforest—are most vulnerable to such climate change? A research team has attempted a new estimate published in Nature Climate Change. (Scientific......

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