Climate change has become the main factor driving amphibians towards extinction as they remained the most threatened vertebrates over the past two decades, according to research published on Wednesday.In a paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, researchers built on a second such study published last year that evaluated 8,011 species for the IUCN Red List.
Climate change has become the main factor driving amphibians towards extinction as they remained the most threatened vertebrates over the past two decades, according to research published on Wednesday.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth's amphibians - from the thorny spike-thumb frog to the red knobby newt, West African giant squeaker, ornat.