Climate change is playing an increasingly important role in biodiversity decline, altering marine, terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems around the world. It’s causing the loss of local species, increasing diseases, and driving mass mortality of plants and animals; species are migrating due to climate change and global warming, changing their niches and certain aspects of their life cycle, impacting food webs and key processes within ecosystems. As humans put increasing pressure on the planet, consuming more resources than ever before, we risk disturbing the balance of ecosystems and losing biodiversity.
In these videos, we explore the most important impacts of climate change on ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and living organisms, highlighting their intersections with human well-being and biodiversity.