Earth on Fire: The Overheating Planet

Earth on Fire: The Overheating Planet

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Tuesday 3 January 2006

FROGS ON THE WAY OUT: WHAT NEXT?

The Geographic section near the start of the latest issue of the National Geographic magazine makes sobering reading. Of the 5700 species of frogs, toads, salamanders and wormlike caecilians that have been assessed, almost a third are threatened, and 168 have become extinct in just the last twenty years.

The 'canaries' in the coal-mine are coughing and spluttering and dying from man-made actions. What next?

For the horrid details the fragile world of frogs at the National Geographic's website.