snemand t1_j1kj2en wrote on December 25, 2022 at 2:41 AM Reply to In Hokkaido, Japan's winter months, harmless underwater algae balls are protected from death by an ice shield. That shield is expected to thin thanks to global warming, causing the balls to join the list of species threatened by climate change. by MistWeaver80 These only lived in the wild in two places. Japan and Mývatn, Iceland. They're very recently extinct in Iceland now. Mostly just a hobbyist plant. Permalink 76
snemand t1_j1kj2en wrote
Reply to In Hokkaido, Japan's winter months, harmless underwater algae balls are protected from death by an ice shield. That shield is expected to thin thanks to global warming, causing the balls to join the list of species threatened by climate change. by MistWeaver80
These only lived in the wild in two places. Japan and Mývatn, Iceland. They're very recently extinct in Iceland now. Mostly just a hobbyist plant.