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Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species

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Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research shows that local extinctions have already occurred in 47% of the 976 plant and animal species studied.

Read more on the Science Daily website.

Date: 13 Dec 2016
Filed under: plant, animal