8. Invasive species
Climate change may have undue results on native ecosystems, due to letting invasive species run amok.
Human migration has, whereas deliberately and typically unintentionally, unfold all types of life the world over. But that is not at all times good. Caught in a habitat that they didn’t evolve for, invasive species like kudzu in North America and rabbits in Australia can overrun and devastate native ecosystems.
The picture above, captured by the Landsat 8 satellite reveals Mexico’s Valsequillo Reservoir, close to the town of Puebla, painted purple with the blooms of water hyacinths. Native to South America, these vegetation have lengthy since unfold around the globe. They can coat our bodies of water, plunging life beneath into shadow and changing into hotbeds for mosquitoes.
In a altering international local weather, extra species are anticipated emigrate. For occasion, in mountainous areas, many species are moving to higher altitudes in a seek for extra hospitable circumstances as their conventional habitats are irrevocably modified.
