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Rise in Global Temperatures and Extinction of the Lizards

By Guest PostMay 29, 20101 commentEnvironmentaaas, andrew sugden, barry sinervo, brazil, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide emissions, carlos frederico duarte rocha, chamaeleonidae, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, donald miles, extinction, fausto méndez-de-la-cruz, furcifer lateralis, global climate change, google earth, google scholar, ignacio de la riva, jack sites, lizards, Madagascar, Mexico, mexico climate-warming, santa cruz, sceloporus lizard, Science, united states, university of california

For many lizards, global climate change is a matter of life and death.

After decades of surveying Sceloporus lizard populations in Mexico, an international research team has found that rising temperatures have driven 12 percent of the country’s lizard populations to extinction.

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Extinction of Species, and loss of vital elements in nature

By ShamsJuly 13, 2009Environment, Scienceamazonian, eco-system, extinction, international union for conservation nature, iucn, rainforest, species

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported in July that 869 species are extinct now.

If we add 290 ‘Critically Endangered’ species, then the loss will amount to 1159.

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