The agency report called for the need to adapt to an increase in more intense hurricanes in the Caribbean, above-average warming impact on glacier-dependent river flows in Central Asia,and droughts affecting fragile economies in North Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"Because it's happening so quickly, they haven't had time to adapt and change, if you imagine a climate changing over hundreds of thousands of years, bears and other animals would gradually move into other habitats,but because this is going to happen over decades, it will be too fast for them to adapt and look for other food sources,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13