Study: Climate-driven extreme weather events shifting natural cycles of plants and wildlife

Stuart Stone
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Study reveals growing evidence of how climate change is impacting a raft of natural processes, with significant implications for biodiversity and food systems

For every 1C rise in temperature at a given location, an average of 2.5 additional plant species have been observed in bloom earlier than expected, according to recent research carried out as part of the...

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