Have you ever gone camping and heard frogs croaking in the night? Can you imagine a world where that noise didn’t exist?!
Frogs and salamanders, the croaking creatures of the night, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. By what, you ask? By global warming.
For the past few years there has been a catastrophic decrease in the amphibian population of the park. The main reason is drought. The ponds that frogs need to survive are slowly drying up, and frog and salamander eggs cannot survive on land, only in water. No water, no eggs. No eggs, no animals.
In Biology Professor Elizabeth Hadly’s words, “They’re just blinking off… it’s depressing and there aren’t any evident solutions that come to mind. It’s a symptom of a much, much larger problem.”
This is exactly why protecting our environment against global warming is so important!