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  2. Effects of climate change on biomes - Wikipedia

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    The Arctic was historically described as warming twice as fast as the global average, [40] but this estimate was based on older observations which missed the more recent acceleration. By 2021, enough data was available to show that the Arctic had warmed three times as fast as the globe - 3.1°C between 1971 and 2019, as opposed to the global ...

  3. Climate change and birds - Wikipedia

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    Climate change has raised the temperature of the Earth by about 1.1 °C (2.0 °F) since the Industrial Revolution.As the extent of future greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation actions determines the climate change scenario taken, warming may increase from present levels by less than 0.4 °C (0.72 °F) with rapid and comprehensive mitigation (the 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) Paris Agreement goal) to ...

  4. Extinction risk from climate change - Wikipedia

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    The report concluded that global warming of 2 °C (3.6 °F) over the preindustrial levels would threaten an estimated 5% of all the Earth's species with extinction even in the absence of the other four factors, while if the warming reached 4.3 °C (7.7 °F), 16% of the Earth's species would be threatened with extinction.

  5. Glossotherium - Wikipedia

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    Glossotherium is an extinct genus of large mylodontid ground sloths of the subfamily Mylodontinae. It represents one of the best-known members of the family, along with Mylodon and Paramylodon . Reconstructed animals were between 3 and 4 metres (9.8 and 13.1 ft) long and possibly weighed up to 1,002.6–1,500 kg.

  6. The slow, measured pace of a sloth - AOL

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  7. Sloth - Wikipedia

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    The marine sloths of South America's Pacific coast became extinct at the end of the Pliocene following the closing of the Central American Seaway; the closing caused a cooling trend in the coastal waters which killed off much of the area's seagrass (and which would have also made thermoregulation difficult for the sloths, with their slow ...

  8. Biologist Shares the Adorable Sound a Baby Sloth Makes When ...

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    Because of their slow metabolism, sloths can starve to death even with a full belly. They also only have a bowel movement once a week. When they're ready to go #2, scientists call it the 'poop dance'.

  9. Sloth Adorably ‘Waves’ at Passing Traffic Before Being ...

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