Effects of climate change on wildlife

Two stories from the Scotsman this week. On Tuesday it reported that global warming was threatening whales and dolphins, by disrupting food supplies. The North Atlantic Right Whale has disappeared from Scotland's West Coast this summer. Read the full story here. Meanwhile today it reports that the Nuthatch, a bird previously restricted to England and Wales, has started to breed in southern Scotland for the first time, as the temperature rises. Read about that here.

There's also a very good review article in the New York Review of Books by radical environmentalist Bill McKibben, concerned with the impacts of climate change. It's entitled The Coming Meltdown. Read it here.