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Scientists are predicting that one-third of land animals could suffer dramatic losses over the course of the century due to one awful thing…

CLIMATE CHANGE!

Even worse is that over half of all plants could be hit just as hard as their environments become unsuitable for their disposition.

As different ecosystems begin to collapse, there will be major consequences to us humans.

Tags: animals, climate change, crazy, global warming, greenhouse gasses, mama nature, sad, species

Meryl Streep is just so dang ahmayzing.

We could listen to her read the phonebook.

So imagine how great it will be to hear the three-time Oscar winner narrate To The Arctic, a film that follows a cute polar bear family!

It's all about a polar bear mama and her two cubs as they just try and live their lives in their changing environment.

With global warming, changing landscapes and other, more dangerous polar bears, this family has a lot to overcome to relocated to a safer habitat.

The movie came out last April and is coming out on DVD and Blu Ray today!

Check out the video (above) for a closer look at the movie.

Tags: antartica, bears, cold, doc, film, global warming, meryl streep, movie, polar bears

As humans continue to pour carbon dioxide into the ozone, the ocean is paying a price.

And it's not just the polar ice caps that are feeling the pain — snails, mollusks, and corals are crippling too.

The pH level of the ocean is steadily becoming more acidic, at a rate of 0.1 percent per century.

This is the highest it has been in over 300 MILLION years!

The pteropod marine snail is dissolving as we speak, as the ocean's supply of aragonite wears thin in the Anarctic.

These snails use aragonite to create their shells. CO2 dissolves in water, forming carbonic acid which is breaking down all the argonite.

The same will happen to corals and mollusks; they use carbonate but this compound is disappearing too.

While aragonite is plentiful in most of the ocean, there are areas where it is completely gone!

Poor snails! We HAVE to lower our carbon dioxide emissions!!!!

RIGHT NOW!!!!

[Image via Google.]

Tags: anarctic ocean, animals, carbon dioxide, dissolving, global warming, ocean, sad, snail

Not quite…but these dino farts are deadly!!

Sauropods, or large plant eating dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus and the Brontosaurus (now called Apatosaurus), are now the latest excuse explanation of climate change.

Researchers speculate that these dinos could produce 520 MILLION tons of methane.

With all that methane, the core temperature of prehistoric Earth could have been ridick!

As a reference, that's close to all methane produced from natural AND man-made sources.

Grodie!!!

The researchers, from Liverpool John Moores University, warn that their estimates are based on many assumptions.

Still, can you imagine standing behind…or within a football field…of that flatulence?

DEATH! LOLz!

Tags: climate change, dinosaur, farting, flatulence, gas, global warming, methane, science

And cue the Jurassic Park theme song!

Scientists in Russia and South Korea are going to join forces to bring back the woolly mammoth!

So amazing.

A russian team has joined with South Korea's stem cell superstar, Hwang Woo-Suk to resurrect

Tags: amazing, cloning, global warming, research, russia, scientists, south korea, wooly mammoth

This may seem impossible but during a global warming event about 56 million years ago there was a huge release of carbon into the atmosphere and the oceans raised the average global temperature 10 degrees over the course of 175,000 years.

Mammals reacted to this increase in heat by shrinking in size generation after generation.

The earliest-known horse, Sifrihippus was a 12 pound little thing, about the size of a miniature schnauzer.

By the end of this period of extreme global warming the Sifrihippus had shrunk down to about 8.5 pounds and was about the size of a house cat.

A researcher said:

"This, for the first time, tells us that temperature is what's driving the body size evolution for these horses."

So many animals get smaller and evolve to cope with global warming. The problem is that the same amount of warming that happened over the course of 175,000 years could happen to us within a century or so!!

"While our study provides a measure of possible response to global warming — that is, getting smaller — in a sense that is the best-case scenario."

He continued to say that if animals can't evolve quickly enough (which would be very hard to do in only 100 or so years) they will most likely go extinct.

"It can only get worse, basically."

Well that's not very comforting news.

Maybe we should all take climate change a little more seriously.

Hybrids for everyone!

[Image courtesy Danielle Byerley/Florida Museum of Natural History.]

Tags: animals, cat, climate change, extinct, global warming, horse, horses, mammals, research, study

Gorillas in Rwanda are finding it harder to find food.

Climate change is forcing vegetation up the mountains, which is colder, and therefore, less comfortable for the gorillas.

Poor apes.

Check out the above video to learn more about how the Rwandan gorillas are being affected.

Tags: climate change, food, global warming, gorilla, mountain, rwanda, sad