‘A canary in the coal mine’: Even fish adapted to dry climates are struggling amid rising temps, droughts
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A research team has analyzed four decades of data from nearly 1,500 streams across dry regions of the United States and Australia, and found that the number of fish species there has declined amid rising temperatures and reduced precipitation and streamflow.
The lentils now grown in the Canary Islands have a history that stretches back almost 2,000 years on the site. This is shown in the very first genetic study of archaeological lentils, carried out by researchers at Linköping University and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain. Since these lentils have been adapted for cultivation in hot and dry climates for a very long time, they may become valuable for plant breeding in the light of ongoing climate change.