Climate change has had a significant direct effect on terrestrial animals, by being a major driver of the processes of speciation and extinction. The best known example of this is the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse which occurred 350 million years ago. Animals on the Move; A warming climate means shifting ranges and mixed-up relationships for a lot of species June 30, 2012; Vol.181 #13 (p. 16) Science News. 2  Climate change miscues may shrink speciesâ outer limits.
HMS Conway (1832) HMS Conway was a Conway-class sixth rate of the Royal Navy, built by Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 February 1832. She was lent to the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool in February 1859 to act as a training ship for boys, and gave her name to HMS Conway, a series of ships and a shore-based school. When Winchester took her place as the training ship in 1861, the two ships swapped names.
Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas lifeboats on their way to shipyard. The brand new lifeboats for Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas are on their way to the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany for installation. The lifeboats were constructed at the Fassmer shipyard in Motz on the Ems. They are 12.5 meters long and 5.4 meters wide and are being shipped by barge. Quantum of the Seas will debut in November 2014 and will be the first ship in the brand new Quantum-class of cruise ships for Royal Caribbean.