Climate change as a matter of fact: Galapagos Islands

Source:  Wikipedia

As Seas Warm, Galápagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary Test.  (The New York Times, 12/18/2018)

To see the future of the Galápagos, look to their recent past, when one such event bore down on these islands. Warm El Niño waters blocked the rise of nutrients to the surface of the ocean, which caused widespread starvation. 

Large marine iguanas died, while others shrank their skeletons to survive. Seabirds stopped laying eggs. Forests of a giant daisy tree were flattened by storms and thorny invasive bushes took over their territory. Eight of every 10 penguins died and nearly all sea lion pups perished. A fish the length of a pencil, the Galápagos damsel, was never seen again. 

That was in 1982. The world’s oceans have warmed at least half a degree Celsius since then.

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