Crabby About Climate Change

What We Can't Sea

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In this episode, we explore how climate change is affecting crabs and other marine life. We also learn what we can do to help. Listen now and find out!

Earth’s climate has been relatively stable for quite long periods of time, which has led animals everywhere to be well-adapted to the climate they live in. However, climate change is now causing major shifts in weather and oceanic patterns (in many cases well outside of normal range). Some animals, sensing these changes, adapt to tolerate new conditions in the same way you and I might huff and puff about record-breaking heat in the summer and cope by drinking iced tea and putting on the fan. However, climate change can be oo disruptive, extreme, and long-term that other animals must seek refuge in areas that have become closer to their ideal habitat conditions, what scientists refer to as a range shift.