Warming Climate Is Driving Species Loss

The steadily warming climate is driving species loss, a new study finds, with the pace of change critical to population declines.

Cheetas resting

The warming climate is driving species loss, say British  scientists who have researched how the heating of the planet and changes in land use are affecting wildlife.

Evidence abounds that the Earth’s climate is warming fast – faster than expected.  At the same time, the threat of extinction is coming closer to many species.  But establishing how the two are linked has so far been problematic.

Now, though, the rate at which the globe is warming has been found to be a critical factor in explaining the decline of birds and mammals, according to research by the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology published in the journal Global Change Biology.

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