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Climate change has made a mammal extinct, great job humanity
2016-08-08 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Metro: For the first time ever, human-driven climate change has caused the extinction of a mammal. The Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent, lived only in the Great Barrier Reef but has been wiped out by rising sea levels, according to Australian researchers. Delta Air Lines grounds ALL flights after massive system outage The long-tailed, whiskered creature lived only on Bramble Cay, a tiny island between Australia and Papua New Guinea, and was thought to be the only mammal native to the Great Barrier...
Great Barrier Reef rodent becomes first extinct mammal at the hand of climate change
2016-08-08 04:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ZME Magazine: Great Barrier Reefs only endemic mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys, is now officially extinct, scientists say. The rat-like rodent occupied a very confined habitat spanning an area no larger than a football field called Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, Australia. Although pressured by human hunting and competition with other species, what ultimately killed off the species were surging seawaters and rising tides triggered by man-made climate change the first mammalian...
Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct by Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say
2016-08-07 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change. The rodent was known to have lived only on Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, between the Cape York Peninsula in the Australian state of Queensland and the southern shores of Papua New Guinea. The long-tailed, whiskered creature, called...
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'Devastated': scientists too late to captive breed mammal lost to climate change
2016-06-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Bramble Cay melomys has become more famous in extinction than it ever was in life. A mouse-like rodent, the melomys amazingly survived on a 3.6 hectare grass-covered cay (a low-lying island in a coral reef) in Australias Great Barrier Reef like a ratty Robinson Crusoe for thousands of years. There, it thrived off just a few plant species until human-caused climate change--in the form of rising sea levels and increasing inundations of sea water on the low-lying island--wiped it off the planet....
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Human-induced climate change wipes out first mammal species: Study
2016-06-14 06:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kathmandu Post: Human-induced climate change appears to have driven the Great Barrier Reef's only endemic mammal species into the history books, according to a report published in The Guardian. In an exclusive report by the British News portal, the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea, has been completely wiped-out from its only known location. The rodent, also called the mosaic-tailed...
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