[Mb-civic] NYTimes.com: Frog Killer Is Linked to Global Warming

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It has always been a scientific truism that "as frogs go, so goes the world"; i.e., that the health of frogs is tied up inextricably with the health of the biosphere in general. Think of them as the front-line canaries in the coal mine. Peace.


SCIENCE | January 12, 2006
Frog Killer Is Linked to Global Warming
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Global warming is combining with a spreading fungus to kill off many species of frogs in Latin America, scientists say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/science/12frog.html?emc=eta1



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