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Great Barrier Reef's melomys is world's first mammal climate casualty: scientists [1]

Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species

Publication Date: 
16/06/2016
Age (Australia) [2]
Tags:
Climate Change [3], Climate Impacts [4], Mammals [5], Rodents [6], Australia [7], Endangered Species [8]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/age-australia
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mammals
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rodents
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/australia
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species