Climate change risks 'extinction domino effect'
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
New research reveals the extinction of plant or animal species from extreme environmental change increases the risk of an 'extinction domino effect' that could annihilate all life on Earth. This would be the worst-case scenario of what scientists call 'co-extinctions', where an organism dies out because it depends on another doomed species.