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Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct by Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

2016-08-07 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change. The rodent was known to have lived only on Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, between the Cape York Peninsula in the Australian state of Queensland and the southern shores of Papua New Guinea. The long-tailed, whiskered creature, called...

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