WA named likely extinction hotspot

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=ca99fea4da1e2e9a&cat=9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e



South-western Australia has been identified as a likely hotspot for future species extinction due to a global warming, in a study released by scientists in Sweden.

The study, which has been published in the journal Conservation Biology, looks at 25 areas that contain a big concentration of plants and animals.

It predicts that 11.6 per cent of all species could be driven to extinction if levels of heat trapping-gases in the atmosphere are to keep rising in the next 100 years.

The range would mean the loss of thousands, or tens of thousands, of species.

more...
Wow a very interesting study... evidentally Australia is going to be a hot spot in the future...

[roguevalley]

1. they have awful fires every year there. poor things. I feel terrible

hearing this.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Australia is doomed to be the new Sahara desert

The changes are happening already.

[WinkyDink]

3. OP title = Washington State, no?

[sutz12]

4. I saw that too...

Western Australia. People get a little loose with their abbreviations around here sometimes. :)