Endangered+Species

The Earth's climate has been changing over 650,000 years. Climate change has been dangerous to our species all over the world. It has been affecting the environment and the way our animals live. According to WWF, in the past 40 years Earth has lost half of its wildlife. As humans kill, and keep hunting these animals for food, or to sale has took a huge toll on our animals and human consumption. While polluting and destroying the land, it has affected a tremendous amount of species. ***Scientists estimate that current extinction rates may be as much as 100x-1000x higher than at any point in history.**




 * List of animals/plants that are __critically endangered__ over the past 10 years.
 * 1) Black Rhino
 * 2) Hawksbill Turtle
 * 3) Amur leopards
 * 4) Mountain Gorillas
 * 5) South China Tiger
 * 6) Sumatran Elephant, Tiger, Rhino and Orangutan
 * 7) Giant Pandas
 * 8) Yellow Coneflower
 * 9) Christmas Heliconia
 * 10) Holywood
 * List of __endangered__ animals/plants over the past 10 years.
 * 1) Sea Lions
 * 2) Malayan Tiger
 * 3) Snow Leopard
 * 4) Tiger
 * 5) Whale
 * 6) African Elephant
 * 7) Indus River Dolphin
 * 8) Lycaste Orchids
 * 9) Lignum Vitae
 * 10) Acampe Longifolia

This graph shows that since the Industrial Revolution the ice core has been melting due to the increase of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It's increasing the warmth in the atmosphere which is melting the ice glaciers. The atmospheric carbon dioxide has never reached pass the level of 300(parts per million) since the 1950's until now, the year of 2014. It's causing animals to loose their habitats, and hard for them to live in their environment because of what we as human beings have been producing to their environment.



The Sea of Japan is known for the home of fishing. It's one of the worlds largest productive fishing sites. Before the year of 2002, huge jellyfish outbreaks would happen every 40 years. Which was affecting the fisherman's fishing. These jellyfishes can weigh in at 441 pounds, and can grow up to 2 meters in diameter. 300-500 million jellyfishes were transported from the East China Sea, to the Tsushima Strait In 2005. **Due to the warmer climates, jellyfish populations has been increasing. The temperatures in the Yellow Sea rose by 3.1 F from 1976 to 2000.**

- 65 million years ago, since the extinction of dinosaurs human beings have been causing the greatest mass extinction. If we keep doing what we're doing, taking and dumping on the Earth, **Half of every species on the Earth will be wiped out in less than 100 years.**
 * What will happen if enough species disappear?

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&page=2&sort=extinction_status http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf http://www.climatehotmap.org/global-warming-locations/sea-of-japan.html