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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022

Climate change is causing “mass die-offs” of animals

Author:     KELLY MCCLURE
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     JUNE 18, 2022 | 9:59AM (EDT)
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Stephan:   In the previous story I showed how the Republicans are using the incompettents they put on the court to block desparetly needed remedial work to prepare us for what climate change is doing. Here is why that matters.
Little Blue Penguins run towards the sea after being released by wildlife workers and school children at Mount Maunganui beach in Tauranga. The Penguins were among those affected by New Zealand’s biggest sea pollution disaster when the Monrovia-flagged container ship ‘Rena’ ploughed into a reef on October 5, 2011.  Credit: Marty Melville/AFP / Getty

With a vast portion of the U.S. experiencing record high heat indexes, climate change is taking a toll on many other parts of the world as well, with a deadly impact on humans and animals alike. 

Graeme Taylor, principal science adviser at the New Zealand Department of Conservation, recently spoke to NBC News about recent “mass die-offs” of the flightless little blue penguin, which is native to that area. According to Taylor, hundreds of the birds have washed up dead on New Zealand beaches since May.

“All the birds were at least half the normal weight, they had no fat on them at all and their muscle tissue had wasted away,” Taylor said. Tests were performed on the birds to […]

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