The heat is on
if the weather is a favourite topic of discussion in England, the English have a lot to talk about. The climate is heating up and is adding unprecedented characteristics to the country's flora and fauna. Vineyards are being planted all over the uk , including the colder counties in the north such as Yorkshire. Scorpions, natives to warmer climes, are thriving in the southern county of Essex. And the conditions are ideal for mosquitoes to make a comeback and spread malaria, (which disappeared from the uk in the '20s) in the county of Kent ( Earthmatters , No 34, Summer 1997).
Reasons and consequences of climate change can easily be gauged in the flora and fauna. Scientists say that most plants and animals can adapt to a change of 1
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