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The planet is heating up faster than species can migrate
December 9, 2016 11:36AM ET
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A new study finds evidence of many local extinctions Pexels Visitors to the Santa Catalina Mountains just outside Tucson, Arizona encounter a very disturbing sight: patches of dead alligator junipers scattered across hillsides at the base of the range. Wildfires did not destroy these trees — climate change did. The trees can’t survive where it’s hot,…