As the planet continues to warm, plants and animals that once thrived are watching the weather conditions they once counted on disappear and the land they once occupied get destroyed. Surviving the ongoing ecological disaster that is climate change is going to require taking some efforts of Biblical proportions. Luckily, there are researchers and scientists in California who are willing to go Old Testament to help different species avoid extinction. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, a group of experts and nonprofit organizations are going to extreme measures to save endangered species, including performing emergency relocations in the style of Noah's Ark.
Okay, so it's not literally a giant wooden ship designed to house two of every animal to survive a world-destroying flood. Instead, these efforts are more surgical. With wildfires raging and droughts drying out the landscape in California and across the West Coast, scientists are racing into affected areas to try to preserve species at risk of getting wiped out. In Death Valley, for example, which recorded the planet's hottest temperature ever earlier this year, researchers have attempted to save some of the rare creatures that occupy the unique region. They have built a massive, 100,000 gallon aquarium designed to replicate the ideal conditions for pupfish, which have lived near Death Valley since the Ice Age.
