5 things you might not know about mountains and climate change
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Ancient. Enduring. Unshakable?
The health of the world’s mountains is not set in stone. As the climate changes, mountains are changing, and their contributions to the health of the planet — and to human well-being — could shift in ways we cannot predict.
On March 15, Conservation International released “Mountain,” the newest film in its “Nature Is Speaking”
series. Voiced by the actor Lee Pace, the film seeks to give a voice to the world’s mountains and to highlight the threats that they face.
While much attention is focused on protecting forests, wetlands and coral reefs, mountains are sometimes taken for granted — yet climate change could crumble their ability to support life as we know it.
Here are a few things you might not know about mountains.
- Mountains are the world’s water towers — and strongholds of biodiversity.
Most of the world’s rivers begin in the mountains. Because of their height, mountains act as water towers, diverting air masses and forcing them
to rise, cool and fall as rain or…
