Climate change: "warmer temperatures over time are changing weather patterns and disrupting the usual balance of nature. This poses many risks to human beings and all other forms of life on Earth." (un.org)
Through Earthwatch's TEACH EARTH program, teams of K-12 teachers are assisting researchers from the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe to collect data to see how climate change is affecting Lepidoptera - caterpillars, moths, butterflies - and other organisms in their food web.
Through Earthwatch's TEACH EARTH program, teams of K-12 teachers are assisting researchers from the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe to collect data to see how climate change is affecting Lepidoptera - caterpillars, moths, butterflies - and other organisms in their food web.