Climate change brings early spring in the Arctic - Independent Online Edition > Climate Change:
The Arctic spring is coming two weeks ahead of time compared to a decade ago, with birds, butterflies, flowers and small animals all appearing earlier in the year as a result of climate change.
A study of a range of animals and plants living in the high Arctic has revealed that many of them are responding to the earlier spring by flowering or laying their eggs significantly ahead of their normal times of the year.
On average, the breeding and flowering seasons in the Arctic have shifted by 14.5 days but some species of mosquitoes have begun laying their eggs 30 days earlier than in the mid 1990s, Toke Hoye, of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, said.
'Our study confirms what many people already think, that the seasons are changing and it is not just one or two warm years but a trend seen over a decade,' Dr Hoye said. 'This is the most extensive study of its kind in the Arctic in terms of the number and variety of species and the replication of the observations.'
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