Animals at extinction risk from climate change
by Stefan Nicola
Bloomberg
BERLIN – Animals are dying off in the wild at a pace as great as the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago because of human activity and climate change.
Current extinction rates are at least 12 times faster than normal because people kill them for food, money or destroy their habitat, said Anthony Barnosky, a biology professor at the University of California-Berkeley …
The Japan Times – Dec 6, 2014
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