You know the story: Slowly turn up the heat on a frog in a pot of water, and the frog won’t hop out. Oblivious to the imperceptible increase in heat, it will stay put until — well, until it ...
Climate change has become the main factor driving amphibians towards extinction as they remained the most threatened vertebrates over the past two decades, according to research published on ...
Two in five amphibian species are at risk of extinction, and their threats are increasingly coming from climate change, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Climate change is having an impact on frogs found in British ponds, research suggests. A deadly frog disease is spreading due to warmer temperatures and in the next 50 years could cause entire ...
Climate change is threatening the survival of plants and animals around the globe as temperatures rise and habitats change. Some species have been able to meet the challenge with rapid evolutionary ...
A major class of vertebrate species is experiencing widespread population declines due to climate change, according to new research. Amphibians, the most threatened class of vertebrates, are ...
A global survey of 8,000 amphibian species by the IUCN reveals that 40% of them are at some risk of extinction: 2,873 species in total. Brazil is the country with the greatest amphibian diversity ...
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Ecologist Stephen Williams says tropics ‘at a real risk of losing the very things it was made a world heritage area to ...
SINGAPORE – Seeing Singapore’s corals turn a ghostly white in 2016 sent shock waves through Ms Kong Man Jing, and the impact of a warming world struck home for her. Coral bleaching occurs when ...
The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP28 hosted by the United Arab Emirates in Dubai will take place ...