Saturday, August 07, 2010

Climate change could destroy 80% of rainforest by 2100


Scientist: "Conservation of the world's biota, as we know it, will depend upon rapid, steep declines in greenhouse gas emissions."

Climate change could destroy 80 per cent of rainforest by next century: Fewer than one in five of the plants and animals which currently live in the world’s rainforests will still be here in 90 years time, a study predicts.

Rainforests currently hold more than half of all the plant and animal species on Earth.

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