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Is Global Warming Killing Frogs?

In the past several years, scientists have come to believe that a fungus is responsible for a steep decline in the populations of amphibians such as frogs (see TFK, September 30, 2005). But why is this deadly fungus spreading?

Last week a team of researchers studying harlequin frogs announced that they had a culprit: global warming. The fungus can grow in places it formerly couldn't because of the changes in climate, they say. Other scientists are not convinced. Climate change, they argue, is complex and many other factors may be involved. But what researchers do agree on is that in many places, amphibians are losing a battle for survival.

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