Climate Change Brings Risk of More Extinctions
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BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. --  Third in a monthly series
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More than 15,000 species, from sharks to frogs to fir trees, are facing extinction and the total is rising faster than ever before, conservationists and scientists said Wednesday.
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Climate change could drive many wild relatives of plants such as the potato and the peanut into extinction, threatening a valuable source of genes necessary to help these food crops fight pests and drought, an international research group reported.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s bird species are likely to have vanished by the year 2100, with another 15% on the brink of extinction, a group of scientists have warned.
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Fossils suggest a worldwide cold spell millions of years ago caused the extinction of many cold-blooded animals in North America, thanks to a reverse greenhouse effect.
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WASHINGTON Dec 13, 2004 - About 10 percent of all bird species face extinction by the end of the century and 15 percent more are on the brink, according to researchers who say such extinctions would have a widespread impact on the environment
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Whole species of animals from frogs to leopards, living in vulnerable areas and with nowhere else to go, face extinction due to global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.
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The next century definitely will not be for the birds as the changing world takes a toll on many species. By 2100, about 10 percent of all bird species probably will be extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting
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Science & environment: Almost half of common European birds are heading towards 'continental extinction', a new report warns
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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As many as half the world's species may face extinction by 2100 because of pollution, climate change, human population growth and other influences, a renowned scientist dubbed "the father of biodiversity" told an audience here.
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BERLIN, May 21 (IPS) - New scientific evidence confirms that human action,  such as carbon emissions causing global  warming, and  industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity -  and, in some  cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and  adapt at unexpected speed to new living  conditions.
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Many climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a result of human-induced climate change.
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Almost a third of the world's amphibian species are confronted by the prospect of extinction, naturalists say.
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Over 40 percent of all bird species in Europe face an uncertain future and some are so threatened that they may disappear soon due to intensive agriculture and climate change, scientists said on Monday.
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Heathland species are in danger of extinction because of the poor condition of their habitat, conservationists warn.
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Global warming over the coming century  could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the  dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all  species, a scientist said on Thursday.