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Australian rodent species first victim of climate change?

2016-06-14 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Climate change appears to have driven to extinction an Australian Great Barrier Reef rodent, according to a new study, which suggests the species may be the first mammal lost to the global phenomenon. Extensive searches for the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rat-like animal, have failed to find a single specimen from its only known habitat on a sandy island in far northern Australia. Researchers said the key factor behind the extinction was "almost certainly" ocean inundation of the low-lying...

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Coral reefs fall victim to overfishing, pollution aggravated by ocean warming

2016-06-07 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Coral reefs are declining around the world because a combination of factors -- overfishing, nutrient pollution, and pathogenic disease -- ultimately become deadly in the face of higher ocean temperatures, researchers have concluded. A study published today in Nature Communications, based on one of the largest and longest field experiments done on this topic, suggests that the widespread coral deaths observed in recent decades are being caused by this combination of multiple local stressors and...

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