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Climate Change Broke 250 Years of Record in United Kingdom

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Spring has arrived a month earlier in the UK since the 1980s The pattern may be found in 250 years of records all throughout the world. Scientists have been recording the shifting seasons across the British Isles for almost 200 years. These long-term records have now shown an alarming pattern.   The arrival of spring, which is marked by the blossoming of flowers after a long winter, is roughly a month sooner than it used to be. The findings were published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a journal of biological sciences published by the UK's national science institution, yesterday.   Over 400,000 individual observations of flowering plants from around the United Kingdom, dating back to 1753, were used in the study. These statistics, gathered and collated by the Woodland Trust in the United Kingdom, currently make up the country's biggest database dedicated to the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals.     What Scientists Think?   “The consequences of an early fl

Polar Bears: Its inclusion in list of Endangered Species in US

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The iconic specie of circumpolar Arctic regions which is known as Polar bears or URSUS MARITIMUS is come under the category of hypo carnivore mammals, considered to be largest land mammals and has become the first mammal species to face the 100% habitat destruction due to global warming. Climate change is the major rival into the lives of polar bears. Starvation, human inter reference and exploitation and global warming led the polar bears to the critical stage where the species have experienced alarming rate of population decline in various arctic regions specially in Canada. In the year 2005, strong voices have raised to protect the Polar bears and it became the big headline at that time in United States. In 1973, the Government of USA has added polar bears to the Endangered species list but with time the studies and reports have shown decline in population of bears So, the authorities have decided to add Polar bears to Threatened species list of ESA. Conservation and protection a