Climate change is causing problems like loss of glaciers, decreased ocean salinity, and changes to ocean currents and habitats. Warmer temperatures allow pine beetles to devastate forests without being killed off in winter. Coral bleaching and ecosystem death can occur as sea temperatures increase, and lower salinity ruins habitats. Ecologically rich areas like the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics are at serious risk of biodiversity loss due to extreme weather. Once affected, coral reefs and tropical areas can take a long time to recover and may experience continued species loss. Humans and ecosystems are impacted by species loss through disrupted agriculture and food webs.

1. By: Anya Boucher and Cassie Neslin

2. What are some of the problems caused by this
effect-
 Loss of glaciers
 Decreased salinity of marine waters
 Changes to ocean currents can alter habitats
 Forest devastation by pine beetle
 Increased sea temperatures

3.  With a warmer world the pine beetle cannot
be killed off in the winter causing devastation
of forests.
 Coral bleaching can occur by an increase in
sea temperature, as well as ecosystems dying
due to lack of coral .
 Decreased salinity can cause species to die
out because their habitats are ruined.

4.  In ecologically rich areas such as Australia
and New Zealand, sites such as the Great
Barrier Reef, and the Wet Tropics are said to
be at serious risk of biodiversity loss.
 This can occur due to extreme weather
 Once a corral reef or wet tropical area is
affected it can take a while to fix itself and its
ecosystem, especially due to species loss.

5.  Humans can be affected due to species loss
in their surroundings which they need to
survive in terms of agriculture, etc.
 Ecosystems can be affected due to how they
lose species, and their food webs, and
species which they rely on can die out, and
cause positive feedback to occur.