Deforestation + climate change = dead end for wildlife 0 SHARES Share it! Less than two-fifths of forests across Latin America, Asia and Africa currently allow for animals and plants to avoid potentially intolerable increases in temperature, they reported in the journal Nature Climate Change. But rarely has climate change been so rapid, and never has it been combined with extreme habitat fragmentation. “Tropical species are particularly sensitive to temperature change,” Senior said. The new study, however, is the first to investigate the interaction between tropical habitat loss and climate change on a global scale over more than a decade.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 08, 2019 18:22 UTC