rising global temperatures

Earth faces sixth ‘great extinction’ with 41% of amphibians set to go the way of the dodo

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Analysis for prestigious Nature magazine sounds alarm on the way that human activity, from overfishing to agriculture, is forcing a vast number of species to vanish from the wild

• Northern white rhino’s death leaves just five left in the world

The ninth warmest of any year since 1880: NASA report

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NASA‘s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis that compares temperatures around the globe in 2012 to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago. NASA … Read more