Tawny Owl Adaptation To The Warming Environment

                             How Tawny Owls Adapt To Their Warming Environment
     
 Tawny Owls are a very natural owl in Europe. They usually come in two colors, either a brownish or grayish. Their wingspan is 81-105cm (32-41in). They weigh 385-800grams. Tawny owl females are 5% larger and 25% more heavy than the males. Tawny owls fly higher than Eurasian Owls. The grey feathered tawny owls are seen more in cooler areas since their colors provide them camouflage with the snow. The brown tawny owls prefer living in the freezing and white environment.Tawny owls like to eat, woodland rodents, small mammals such as young rabbits, voles, rats and hares. They also like to eat, beetles, birds, songbirds, house sparrows, ermine and earthworms.

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Tawny owls are changing from white to brown, so they can survive in their warming climate. Scientists have said, as winters become milder, grey feather tawny owls are likely to disappear. In years when winter weather was bad, there was an increased mortality rate in the brown tawny owl community. This could be because brown tawny owls were more seen by predators when there was solid snow cover. Tawny owls will be impacted by hard winters and food scarcity due to climate change. Voles are the most important prey for tawny owls,they count for 62% of their food. The tawny owl community will die off unless a normal vole cycle starts up again. Tawny owls cannot breed offspring that will survive unless they have enough voles to feed for their young. This shows that we need to stop climate change now so that tawny owl populations can survive through the harsh winters and have offspring that will live for a long time.

Works Cited

Brennand, Emma. "Earth News-Owls Change Colour as Climate Warms." BBC-Earth News, 22 Feb. 2011, news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9401000/9401733.stm. Accessed 10 Dec. 2019.

Marshall, Tom. "Owls In Trouble In A Changing World." Phys org, 17 Mar. 2014, phys.org/news/2014-03-owls-world.html. Accessed 12 Dec. 2019.

Ro, Christine. "The Animals That Will Survive Climate Change." BBC Future, 4 Aug. 2019, www.bbc.com/future/article/20190730-the-animals-that-will-survive-climate-change. Accessed 9 Dec. 2019.

Tawny Owl Facts-Tawny Owl Habitat-Tawny Owl Diet." Birds Flight, birdsflight.com/tawny-owl facts-tawny-owl-habitat-tawny-owl-diet/. Accessed 12 Dec. 2019.

Tornio, Stacy. Tawny Owls. 23 Mar. 2016, www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/8-animals-are-evolving-quickly/tawny-owls#top-desktop. Accessed 11 Dec. 2019.

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Environment-Here And There

Here (New Hampshire)-Lyme Disease

As I was reading Lyme Disease Heat Stress, Extreme Weather Expected To Increase, I became more interested in learning about Lyme disease. I think one of the reasons I became interested in Lyme disease is because my dad is battling it. Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness that you get when an infected tick bites you. When you get Lyme disease you might get a bulls-eye rash around the bite that the tick left. Some of the early symptoms are headaches, fevers, joint aches, and brain fog. In 2017, the 956 confirmed cases in New Hampshire, represented one of the highest rates per population density in the United States.

The rising temperatures are causing ticks to live for longer periods which can expose animals and humans to a longer yearly tick season. The rising temperatures are not just affecting humans, it's also affecting deer and dogs, and killing moose populations in New Hampshire. The moose in New Hampshire is experiencing a high volume of blood loss, they try to get the ticks off of themselves instead of eating, they lose their fat so they get too thin and they scrape off a lot of their fur trying to remove the ticks.

The second stage of Lyme disease is what my dad has. We call this neurological Lyme Disease. Neurological Lyme Disease is the second stage of Lyme that either was not detected at the beginning or was not treated fully. People who have Neurological Lyme Disease can have nerve damage in their arms and legs, irritability, poor memory, concentration, and poor sleep. Early testing for Lyme is not always accurate. It shows as negative when later it shows up as positive.

Some ways that you can prevent yourself from getting Lyme disease is, you should check yourself for ticks after spending time in the woods, take off a tick as quickly as possible with tweezers so it does not bite you, use insect repellent and tick proof your yard. There are vaccines available for dogs currently but none for humans. Some labs are testing vaccines to possibly work with humans in the future. So we need to stop climate change before we all get Lyme disease.

There (Italy)-Lyme Disease

In the Northwestern region of Italy, scientists have studied the bacteria in ticks which are called Borrelia. This is a different type of bacteria that causes Lyme in Italy compared to North America.   In Italy, people who have Lyme disease get central nervous system issues such as confusion.People who live in the Italian Peninsula are in danger of being attacked by many tick species. There are 40 species of ticks in Italy. Hard ticks are the most common ticks. They cause tick-borne diseases that can spread to wild animals and domestic animals in Italy. The ticks in Italy are found to have bacteria in their saliva instead of in their gut.Lyme disease was identified for 3 workers who were at danger for a tick bite. In Italy, 24 cases of Lyme disease were recorded in the last year. Eighteen percent of ticks looked at from three areas showed positive for Lyme disease borreliae.

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In Italy, the temperature has risen due to climate change so the ticks go into different regions and infect more people with Lyme disease. The climate change is not just affecting the tick population, it's also making glaciers in the Italian Alps melt, severe flooding and violent storms have been occurring more often. Scientists say that the Italian Alps could lose up to 80% of their glacier cover by the end of the century, when summer temperatures go up by 3 degrees Celsius. If temperatures rise up by 5 degrees Celsius, the Alps will be mostly ice-free by 2100. This shows that Italy and the global community needs to work to stop climate change so that they can have a healthier country, by not having warm temperatures this causes the ticks to live for longer.




Works Cited:

Buchner, Jill. Lyme Disease and Beyond:5 Ways Ticks Make You Sick. Reader's Digest Canada, www.readersdigest.ca/health/conditions/tick-borne-diseases/. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019.

Caruso, Catherine. "Tests For Lyme Disease Miss Many Early Cases-But A New Approach Could Help." STAT, 28 June 2017, www.statnews.com/2017/06/28/early-lyme-tests/.

Dubail, Jean. "Here Are the Biting Ticks in NH, Number of Lyme Cases." Patch, 8 Apr. 2019, patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/here-are-biting-ticks-nh-number-lyme-cases. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019.

Kanter, Rob. "Moose, Winter Ticks, and Climate Change In New Hampshire." Environmental Almanac, 27 July 2017, will.illinois.edu/environmentalalmanac/program/moose-winter-ticks-and-climate-change-in-new-hampshire. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019.

"Lyme Borreliosis,Po River Valley,Italy." Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Aug. 2010, wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/8/10-0152_article. Accessed 5 Dec. 2019.

"Lyme Disease-Symptoms And Causes." Mayo Clinic, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20374651. Accessed Matthews, L. "Lyme Disease In Italy." LymeDiseaseGuide.org, 20 Oct. 2014, lymediseaseguide.net/lyme-disease-in-italy. Accessed 5 Dec. 2019.

How To Save Coral Reefs

                                                      How To Save Coral Reefs
 Did you know that coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean are losing their corals more quickly than we have ever noticed?. This is because climate change is making the ocean too hot during the summer so the coral is not used to the ocean being so hot. Many of the world's coral reefs have already increased in temperature by one to two degrees in Fahrenheit. According to Kirsten Marhaver on TED Talk, "reefs have suffered through centuries of intense human abuse".The reefs are letting out the colored algae that thrive in their skin and the clear bleached tissue that is left behind often dies and then rots away.

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 Sewage is also playing a role in damaging coral reefs. When sewage and waste from farming go up, the position of the nitrogen in the water causes algae to grow, which kills coral reefs.According to recent research by Stephanie Wear,The Nature Conservancy's lead scientist for coral reef conservation,Sewage is shockingly widespread throughout the world,A full 96 percent of places that have both people and coral reefs have a sewage pollution problem". Farmers need to stop letting so much runoff into the oceans.This is what is killing coral reefs.


If people want to save coral reefs they should donate to an organization that helps with the cleanup of reefs. We should use less water everyday so that it does not become runoff into the oceans. People should not put their boat anchors down on the reef. If you want to go diving to see a reef you should not touch any of the reef parts. The reefs are very breakable and if you touch them that could cause grim damage to the reefs. If you plant a tree, that could help prevent  the runoff from getting into the oceans and would help stop increasing planet temperatures which have a big impact on coral reefs and the oceans. People should visit Marine Parks so that they can learn more about how to help keep our ecosystems clean and healthy.

Marhaver, Kirsten, editor. "Kirsten Marhaver:Why I Still Have Hopes For Coral Reefs." Ted Talk, wakelet.com/wake/b54d3ba6-ac58-46b2-a497-b65e1a2c481b. Accessed 25 Nov. 2019.

Shive, Ian. Elkhorn coral at Jardines de la Reina, Cuba. Cool Green Science, 8
     June 2015, blog.nature.org/science/2015/06/08/
     sewage-pollution-great-threat-coral-reefs/. Accessed 25 Nov. 2019.

"25 Tremendous Ways To Save Coral Reefs From Destruction." Conserve Energy Future, www.conserve-energy-future.com/25-tremendous-ways-to-save-coral-reefs-from-destruction.php. Accessed 25 Nov. 2019.

Regenerative Farming

Welcome to my blog!, I am writing about how climate change is affecting people and the earth everyday. This blog is important because people are really hurting the earth with climate change.

According to the ABC News article on climate change, experts say, "if drastic changes aren't made now, the planet could "blow past" the carbon budget in the next decade (Smerden). According to the ABC News article on climate change, experts said to "cut back on beef consumption, which has a monumental carbon footprint compared to any other meat".

Regenerative Farming is meant to keep carbon underground in the soil so that not so much of it floats into the atmosphere and cause more climate change. The carbon that has been kept in earth's soil is floating into the atmosphere through farming,which is  making it go from a solid into a gas.This shows that we need to take care of the environment by doing regenerative farming more often.

 Soils are a really good carbon sink after the oceans. "There is wide variability in the estimates of the amount of carbon stored in the soils globally"(Andre Leu).Climate change not only affects our planet, it affects how healthy our soil is. If our soil is unhealthy because of climate change, then farmers cannot grow the foods that we eat on their farms. Climate change also affects how healthy our plants are.From what I have read about regenerative farming, it seems like doing this would fix our climate change issue. This is a good solution that we need to start trying if we want to save our environment and help the next generations keep the environment healthy.

So if we want to help stop climate change, you need to go out and vote on some solutions on how to stop it and do regenerative farming. If you don't believe climate change is a problem then you don't care about how unhealthy our environment is. I believe we need to stop climate change. It is not ok that we are treating our earth like this. The earth was not made to have people make climate change. The earth was made for us to live on and keep it healthy. People need to cut down on so much carbon. This issue is just going to affect future generations later in life if we don't fix this issue now while we can.

Works Cited

Jacobo, Julia. "What You Can Do To Help PreventClimate Change According To Experts." Edited by Smerdon. ABC News, 28 Sept. 2019, abcnews.go.com/US/prevent-climate-change-experts/story?id=65721423.

Leu, Andre. "Reversing Climate Change Through Regenerative Agriculture." Regeneration International, 9 Oct. 2018, regenerationinternational.org/2018/10/09/reversing-climate-change-through-regenerative-agriculture/.

"Regenerative Agriculture Could Help Solve The Problems Of Climate Crisis And Food Shortages." Green Growing, www.greenandgrowing.org/regenerative-agriculture-help-solve-problems-climate-change-food-shortages/. Accessed 15 Nov. 2019.