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...parts of Asia and Africa. El Niño events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears and beluga whales are disrupted...
...norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Nino events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears, butterflies and beluga whales are being disrupted...
...norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Ni?o events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears, butterflies and beluga whales are being disrupted...
...cites "shrinkage of glaciers, thawing of permafrost, later freezing and earlier break-up of ice on rivers and lake, and poleward and altitudinal shifts of plant and animal ranges" as evidence of a change in global climate...
...Pioneers! In Tokyo, a few hours after 77 Japanese antarctic explorers steamed Poleward, each loaded with 700 pieces of equipment, the Maritime Safety Board got a hurry-up call, rushed the Coast Guard out to sea with each man's missing gear: coat hangers...