Nature: Earth's regional climate zones will shift more quickly in response to warming as the globe grows hotter in coming decades, according to a study published online in Nature Climate Change on Sunday1. This is likely to make it harder for species to cope, raising the risk of extinction.
If these changes are happening faster and faster, it means that the ecosystems have less and less time to adapt, says Irina Mahlstein, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental...