The presents of street lights substantialy change the ecology of ground-dwelling invertebrates and insects.

They report in biology letters that invertebrate predators and scavengers were more common near the lights even during the day.
The team found in general that a higher number of animals were trapped near the lights.

The melting of the ice caps makes the global warming increases its effect.

The ice caps act like a reflector and reflect more sunlight than the oceans, making the Earth's temperature decreases.
The continuous melting of the ice caps is making them to melt and less sunlight is reflected so it makes the temperature to rise increasing the melting and the global warming, it is like a vicious circle.

The national oceanic and atmospheric administration announced in November a proposal to list 66 choral species into the endangered species act of 1973.

Climate change and ocean acidification are the primal threats to ch oral species. They are loosing the algae that makes their color and their are pushing this species to the decline.