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Climate Change Toggle share menu Advertisement Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in warming world So-called endemic species - plants and animals found only in certain zones - will be hit hardest in a warming world. (Photo: AFP/Cindy Ord) 09 Apr 2021 09:51AM Share this content Bookmark PARIS: Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by global warming, scientists on warned Friday (Apr 9). An analysis of 8,000...

Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in warming world Fri 09th April 2021 | 08:40 AM Paris, April 9 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Apr, 2021 ) :Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by global warming, scientists warned Friday. An analysis of 8,000 published risk assessments for species showed a high danger for extinction in nearly 300 biodiversity "hot spots", on land and in the sea, if temperatures rise three degrees Celsius abov...

Earth's most beloved creatures headed toward extinction under current emissions, study shows By Sophie Lewis Species extinctions accelerating, study warns Snow leopards in the Himalayas, lemurs in Madagascar and elephants in central Africa: Some of Earth's most beloved creatures are on a path to extinction, a new study shows, thanks to current greenhouse gas emissions. Unless humans stop pumping carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, researchers say the planet's biodiversity will suffer devastating consequences.  In a study published Friday in the journal Biolog...

Published on: Wednesday, April 07, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Marine life in tropical waters declines when annual average sea temperature rises above 20 to 25 degrees Celsius PARIS: Warming waters have driven thousands of ocean species poleward from the equator, threatening marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of people who depend on them, researchers reported. Comparison of data on nearly 50,000 species over three 20-year periods up to 2015 revealed that the exodus from tropical waters is accelerating, they reported in the journal PNAS. The tropics have long harboured an outsized proportion of...

The tropics have long harbored an outsized proportion of marine life, but could see that diversity disappear if climate change is not brought to heel, the authors warned. "Global warming has been changing life in the ocean for at least 60 years," senior author Mark Costello, a professor of marine biology at the University of Auckland, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). "Our findings show a drop of about 1,500 species at the equator," he added. "This will continue throughout the century, but the pace will depend on how we reduce – or not – greenhouse gas emissions." Poleward migration was mo...