Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bummer: We've just discovered 350 new species, and now tiny amounts of CO2 may kill them all

Bonn meet sets Copenhagen climate agenda
To underline what's at stake, the Worldwide Fund For Nature has released a new report collating details of the 350 newly-discovered species in the eastern Himalayas. They may be new to our knowledge, but Kim Carstensen, the leader of the WWF Global Climate Initiative says they're now under threat from global warming.

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