As Global Temperatures Rise, World's Lizards Are Disappearing: 20 Percent of All Lizard Species Could Be Extinct by 2080

-For many lizards, global climate change is a matter of life and death.
-Rising temperatures have driven 12 percent of the country's lizard populations to extinction.
-Scientists predict that a full 20 percent of all lizard species could be extinct by the year 2080.
-Studies in Mexico indicate that the temperatures in those regions have changed too rapidly for the lizards to keep pace.
-Lizards are far more susceptible to climate-warming extinction than previously thought because many species are already living right at the edge of their thermal limits, especially at low elevation and low latitude range limits.

Reflection: I think it sucks that different species are being affected by all the bad that we do in the world. The pollution and other ways we are destroying the ecosystem is ruining the lives of other animals. It's a shame that some people don't even realize the destruction we are doing to the world. It should be a way more talked about problem, as it concerns everyone and everything on the planet. We should all be very careful and try to minimize our bad impact on the world because one day it might come back to haunt us.

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100513143447.htm

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Citation: American Association for the Advancement of Science. "As Global Temperatures Rise, World's Lizards Are Disappearing: 20 Percent of All Lizard Species Could Be Extinct by 2080." ScienceDaily 13 May 2010. 17 May 2010 .