{"id":32,"date":"2026-03-07T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatdoesclimatechangemeanforyou.opened.ca\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:27:05","slug":"effects-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whatdoesclimatechangemeanforyou.opened.ca\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Climate Change on Earth and Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Climate change is a problem for animals and the places they call home. The weather is getting weirder, and it is getting harder for animals to survive. Their homes are changing fast and they are having a tough time keeping up. Which means it is getting harder for them to find food, water, and safe places to live. It is not only animals that are struggling, people are too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\" wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity eplus-wrapper\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image \">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized eplus-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oneearthonechance.com\/images\/10-effects-of-climate-change.webp\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:582px;height:auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/oneearthonechance.com\/10-effects-of-climate-change.html\">One Earth Once Chance<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Some animals are in a lot of danger, like the ones that only live in one place, like the Vancouver Island Marmot.<sup data-fn=\"93197e4d-9162-4820-9e73-719381e1014c\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#93197e4d-9162-4820-9e73-719381e1014c\" id=\"93197e4d-9162-4820-9e73-719381e1014c-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> As the climate changes, species that are <strong>Endemic<\/strong> to regions are especially vulnerable. Endemic species are the ones that live in a specific region, like Vancouver Island. These are the most vulnerable species when the only home they have ever known starts to change in ways they might not be able to keep up with. Animals that <strong>migrate<\/strong> long distances come in contact with more changing ecosystems. The Humpback Whale travels about 10,000 kilometres as they migrate.<sup data-fn=\"ff6c7fcd-c374-4089-8f99-a2b3f79e39d3\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#ff6c7fcd-c374-4089-8f99-a2b3f79e39d3\" id=\"ff6c7fcd-c374-4089-8f99-a2b3f79e39d3-link\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Climate change is also affecting <strong>how animals communicate with each other<\/strong> and their surroundings. For example, when the seasons change, flowers might start blooming before the bees are awake or birds might get to where they are going after their food source is all gone.<sup data-fn=\"c0bffcc9-00ca-48fc-844c-d0c7ffb49d6b\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#c0bffcc9-00ca-48fc-844c-d0c7ffb49d6b\" id=\"c0bffcc9-00ca-48fc-844c-d0c7ffb49d6b-link\">3<\/a><\/sup> Problems that effect one animal population might <strong>cascade<\/strong> into issues that effect the larger environment. When one part in a group of living things gets out of whack, it affects everything that is connected to it.<sup data-fn=\"2b4bc18b-da20-403c-8df4-d5287bd4b6c8\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#2b4bc18b-da20-403c-8df4-d5287bd4b6c8\" id=\"2b4bc18b-da20-403c-8df4-d5287bd4b6c8-link\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube eplus-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Causes and Effects of Climate Change | National Geographic\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4H1N_yXBiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details eplus-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>View Transcript<\/summary>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:00<br>human activities from pollution to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:02<br>overpopulation are driving up the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:05<br>earth&#8217;s temperature and fundamentally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:07<br>changing the world around us the main<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">The Greenhouse Effect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:14<br>cause is a phenomenon known as the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:16<br>greenhouse effect gases in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:18<br>atmosphere such as water vapor carbon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:21<br>dioxide methane nitrous oxide and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:24<br>chlorofluorocarbons let the sun&#8217;s light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:27<br>in but keep some of the heat from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:29<br>escaping like the glass walls of a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:31<br>greenhouse the more greenhouse gases in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:34<br>the atmosphere the more heat gets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:36<br>trapped strengthening the greenhouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:38<br>effect and increasing the earth&#8217;s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:40<br>temperature human activities like the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Increasing Earths Temperature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:43<br>burning of fossil fuels have increased<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:45<br>the amount of co2 in the atmosphere by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:48<br>more than a third since the Industrial<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:50<br>Revolution the rapid increase in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:53<br>greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:56<br>warmed the planet at an alarming rate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">0:59<br>while Earth&#8217;s climate has fluctuated in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:02<br>the past atmospheric carbon dioxide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:04<br>hasn&#8217;t reached today&#8217;s levels in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:07<br>hundreds of thousands of years climate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Changing Weather<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:12<br>change has consequences for our oceans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:14<br>our weather our food sources and our<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:17<br>health ice sheets such as Greenland and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:20<br>Antarctica are melting the extra water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:24<br>that was once held in glaciers causes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:26<br>sea levels to rise and spills out of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:29<br>oceans flooding coastal regions warmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:32<br>temperatures also make weather more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:34<br>extreme this means not only more intense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Challenges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:37<br>major storms floods and heavy snowfall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:40<br>but also longer and more frequent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:43<br>droughts these changes in weather pose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:46<br>challenges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:48<br>growing crops becomes more difficult the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:51<br>areas where plants and animals can live<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:53<br>shift and water supplies are diminished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:56<br>in addition to creating new agricultural<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">1:59<br>challenges climate change can directly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:02<br>affect people&#8217;s physical health in urban<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:05<br>areas the warmer atmosphere creates an<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:07<br>environment that traps and increases the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:10<br>amount of smog this is because smog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:13<br>contains ozone particles which increase<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:15<br>rapidly at higher temperatures exposure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:19<br>to higher levels of smog can cause<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:21<br>health problems such as asthma heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:23<br>disease and lung cancer while the rapid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:28<br>rate of climate change is caused by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:30<br>humans humans are also the ones who can<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:33<br>combat it if we work to replace fossil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:36<br>fuels with renewable energy sources like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:39<br>solar and wind which don&#8217;t produce<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:41<br>greenhouse gas emissions we might still<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:44<br>be able to prevent some of the worst<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:46<br>effects of climate change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">2:49<br>[Music]<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Animals are <strong>losing their homes, getting sick easily, and not interacting with each other like they used to<\/strong>.<sup data-fn=\"19c5d533-2c91-4d45-a9d1-6096155d603e\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#19c5d533-2c91-4d45-a9d1-6096155d603e\" id=\"19c5d533-2c91-4d45-a9d1-6096155d603e-link\">5<\/a><\/sup> All of these things are really bad for animals. It is not just animals that are hurt by this people are too. When the world around us is healthy, it helps people have access to food, jobs, and ways to connect with nature that we need every day. Climate change is a problem for animals and for people. We need to think about climate change and how it affects animals and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><strong>Activity<\/strong>: <strong>Fill in the Blanks: Climate Change and Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-7\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"7\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Climate Change and Animals\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons eplus-wrapper is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\" wp-block-button eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-fcebc1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/whatdoesclimatechangemeanforyou.opened.ca\/?page_id=30\">Back<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\" wp-block-button eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-d5a54f\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/whatdoesclimatechangemeanforyou.opened.ca\/\">Home<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\" wp-block-button eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-d6ee48\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/whatdoesclimatechangemeanforyou.opened.ca\/?page_id=34\">Next<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\" wp-block-heading eplus-wrapper\"><strong>References<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"93197e4d-9162-4820-9e73-719381e1014c\">Le Brun Robles Gil, L. (2026). Animals Only Found in Canada. In <em>The Canadian Encyclopedia<\/em>. Retrieved from https:\/\/thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/animals-only-found-in-canada <a href=\"#93197e4d-9162-4820-9e73-719381e1014c-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"ff6c7fcd-c374-4089-8f99-a2b3f79e39d3\">Parks Canada. (2024). <em>Six champion travellers: Parks Canada&#8217;s longest-migrating species<\/em>. Government of Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/parks.canada.ca\/nature\/science\/especes-species\/voyageurs-travellers\">https:\/\/parks.canada.ca\/nature\/science\/especes-species\/voyageurs-travellers<\/a> <a href=\"#ff6c7fcd-c374-4089-8f99-a2b3f79e39d3-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 2\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"c0bffcc9-00ca-48fc-844c-d0c7ffb49d6b\">Bairlein, F. (2016). Migratory birds under threat. <em>Science<\/em>, <em>354<\/em>(6312), 547\u2013548. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aah6647\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aah6647<\/a> <a href=\"#c0bffcc9-00ca-48fc-844c-d0c7ffb49d6b-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 3\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"2b4bc18b-da20-403c-8df4-d5287bd4b6c8\">Cahill, A. E., Aiello-Lammens, M. E., Fisher-Reid, M. C., Hua, X., Karanewsky, C. J., Yeong \u00a0 Ryu, H., Sbeglia, G. C., Spagnolo, F., Waldron, J. B., Warsi, O., &amp; Wiens, J. J. (2013).<em> How does climate change cause extinction?<\/em> Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1750), 20121890. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2012.1890\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2012.1890<\/a> <a href=\"#2b4bc18b-da20-403c-8df4-d5287bd4b6c8-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 4\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"19c5d533-2c91-4d45-a9d1-6096155d603e\">Foden, W. B., Butchart, S. H. M., Stuart, S. N., Vi\u00e9, J.-C., Ak\u00e7akaya, H. R., Angulo, A., DeVantier, L. M., Gutsche, A., Turak, E., Cao, L., Donner, S. D., Katariya, V., Bernard, R., Holland, R. A., Hughes, A. F., O\u2019Hanlon, S. E., Garnett, S. T., \u015eekercio\u011flu, \u00c7. H., &amp; Mace, G. M. (2013). Identifying the World\u2019s Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e65427. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0065427\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0065427<\/a> <a href=\"#19c5d533-2c91-4d45-a9d1-6096155d603e-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 5\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is a problem for animals and the places they call home. The weather is getting weirder, and it is getting harder for animals to survive. Their homes are changing fast and they are having a tough time keeping up. Which means it is getting harder for them to find food, water, and safe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7506,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":"[{\"id\":\"93197e4d-9162-4820-9e73-719381e1014c\",\"content\":\"Le Brun Robles Gil, L. (2026). Animals Only Found in Canada. In <em>The Canadian Encyclopedia<\\\/em>. Retrieved from https:\\\/\\\/thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\\\/en\\\/article\\\/animals-only-found-in-canada\"},{\"id\":\"ff6c7fcd-c374-4089-8f99-a2b3f79e39d3\",\"content\":\"Parks Canada. (2024). <em>Six champion travellers: Parks Canada's longest-migrating species<\\\/em>. 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