By 2085, a Third of All Animal Habitats Could Be Hit by Multiple Climate Disasters at Once
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In the summer of 2019, a heatwave moving across eastern Australia killed more than 72,000 flying foxes. The bats dropped from their roost trees mid-flight, or died clinging to branches, cooked alive by temperatures that exceeded anything in the historical record for those regions. That same season, wildfires ripped through the Pantanal and killed an estimated 17 million vertebrates. Conservation biologists have spent years studying each of these disasters in isolation. A new analysis from the Po
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