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SEASON FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE—
YOUR FRUIT SAVE ANIMALS!
Try to eat mostly in-
season and locally
grown fruits and vege- Koala
tables. This cuts down WHERE THEY LIVE: Eastern Australia
on the energy used to WHY THEY NEED HELP: Heat waves and
grow and transport droughts cause animals to change
food, which reduces their natural behavior. For instance,
the release of heat- koalas usually get water from their
trapping gases. leafy diet. But a warmer climate
means drier leaves, which forces
koalas to come down from eucalyptus
trees to search for water. That can
10 AIR DRIED expose them to predators.
Hang up your Red-Cheeked
freshly washed Salamander
clothes to dry. WHERE THEY LIVE: Mountains of North
You’ll be saving Carolina and Tennessee
energy by not using WHY THEY NEED HELP: These salaman-
the dryer and help- ders live only at the top of the Great
ing with chores. Smoky Mountains, where the air is cool
11 SEND A POSTCARD and humid. As the climate changes, the
salamanders’ habitat may become too
Send a letter, postcard, or drawing warm and dry for the amphibians.
to your mayor, government repre- Coral
sentative, or even the president WHERE THEY LIVE: Tropical oceans
asking them to do something WHY THEY NEED HELP: When ocean
about climate change. temperatures rise, coral release the
algae that live inside them. Because
12 CALCULATE coral eat the carbohydrates that algae
YOUR IMPACT
Use an online car- produce, the coral loses its main food
source. This turns the coral completely
bon footprint cal- white; the “bleaching” often kills them.
culator to see how
much carbon diox- Iiwi
ide your actions WHERE THEY LIVE: Some of
release. If you the Hawaiian Islands
know how you’re WHY THEY NEED HELP: Just one bite
impacting the from a mosquito carrying malaria can
planet, you can kill an iiwi. These birds stay safe in
take steps for their cool, mountainous habitat, out of
change. the range of mosquitoes. But climate
13 change will make the island peaks
warmer, bringing more bugs.
BE A SCIENCE
CHAMPION
Not everyone Monarch
understands climate Butterfly
change. Learn the WHERE THEY LIVE: North, Central, and
facts and talk to South America; Australia, Indonesia, and
your friends and parts of Europe
family. If everyone WHY THEY NEED HELP: Monarch butter-
gets the science, we flies use temperature to figure out
can work together when to migrate, reproduce, and hiber-
to find solutions. nate. Any changes in climate could
impact their life cycles.
CHAEL EDMER / GETTY
ORAL); MICHAEL APRIL 2018 • NAT GEO KIDS
GETTY IMAGES (IIWI); SARI ONEAL / O CK (BUTTERFLY) 17
