Climate Change
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With the rise of Earth’s temperature through global warming, the Japanese temperate rainforest is affected in several ways. With the Arctic ice pack drastically melting, water levels begin to rise. Since Japan is primarily surrounded by water, these water levels would rise to cover more of Japan’s geographical area. This would mean more flooding, stronger typhoons and higher tsunamis, knocking out larger portions of the Japanese temperate rainforest, which leaves less space for local species and less materials for the Japanese people. Also, global warming would generally increase the temperature of the Japanese climate. With this, the cooler temperatures of the temperate rainforest would rise, making it difficult or impossible for some species to survive, such as the Japanese salamander, which depend on the cool temperatures of the forest to survive. Also, with the hotter, drier temperatures, forest fires are more likely to happen.