Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in a warming world
Genetic sequencing of human remains dating back 45,000 years has revealed a previously unknown migration into Europe and showed intermixing with Neanderthals in that period was more common than previously thought.
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 warned Friday.
An analysis of 8,000 published risk assessments for species showed a high danger for extinction in nearly 300 biodiversities "hot spots", on land and in the sea, if temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, according to a report published in the journal Biological Conservation.
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