The planet is warming, from North Pole to South Pole and everywhere in between. Globally, the mercury is already up more than 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius), and even more in
sensitive polar regions. And the effects of rising temperatures aren’t waiting for some far-flung future. They’re happening right now. Signs are appearing all over, and some of them are surprising. The heat is not only melting glaciers and sea ice it’s also shifting precipitation patterns and setting animals on the move.
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Ice is melting worldwide, especially at the Earth’s poles. This includes mountain glaciers, ice sheets covering West Antarctica and Greenland, and Arctic sea ice.
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Researcher Bill Fraser has tracked the decline of the Adélie penguins on Antarctica, where their numbers have fallen from 32,000 breeding pairs to 11,000 in 30 years.
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Sea level rise became faster over the last century.
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Some butterflies, foxes, and alpine plants have moved farther north or to higher, cooler areas.
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Precipitation (rain and snowfall) has increased across the globe,
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Spruce bark beetles have boomed in Alaska thanks to 20 years of warm summers. The insects have chewed up 4 million acres of spruce trees.
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DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler
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The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
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The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
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The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
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Astronauts cannot belch as there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.