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...climate change could lead to the evolution of sedentariness in many bird populations that are currently migratory...Migration: 3.2 Stabilising selection - Stabilising selection occurs where there is an optimal value for the trait of interest. This means that selection acts against both extreme phenotypes and favours intermediate variants which have the highest fitness...

...Climate Change has predicted that several low lying Pacific islands will become swamped by increased sea levels as a result of Seawater expansion and that countries such as Bangladesh could lose as much as 17% of their land area – an area populated by around 20 million people. In addition to this, melting of the ice over Antarctica and Greenland will have an effect at...

...climate changed from a wet, and likely warm, planet in the Noachian, to dryer and colder period in the early Hesperian. Then the cold and dry conditions that prevail today emerged in the Amazonian. The transition from warm and wet to cold and dry is now believed to have occurred around 4.2 billion years ago and is a critical part of the story of water on the red planet,...