INFOTERRA: News: Species Pressured By Climate Change
HUNDREDS OF SPECIES PRESSURED BY GLOBAL WARMING
STANFORD, California, January 2, 2003 (ENS) - Hundreds of plant and animal
species around the world are feeling the impacts of global warming,
although the most dramatic effects may not be felt for decades, according
to new research from a Stanford University team. They predict that a rapid
temperature rise, together with other environmental pressures, "could
easily disrupt the connectedness among species" and lead to numerous
extinctions.
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