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A fungal epidemic fueled by global warming may have wiped out dozens of frog species in otherwise pristine environments, a new study concludes.
In the last 20 years, about two-thirds of Central and South America's 110 brightly colored harlequin frog species have vanished. A fungus with a worldwide range and an affinity for amphibian skin had previously been indicted as a prime suspect in their disappearances.
If there's any upshot to climate change, it's going to be that the Man and/or Woman On The Street's gonna have a new and brutal understanding of what a feedback loop is, and just what us hippies mean when we say "interrelated": i.e., today the frogs, tomorrow the world.
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