Global Warming Is Killing Frogs

Ran across this study a few months back from Nature that claims Global Climate Change is responsible for massive amphibian die-offs in Central and South America.

The new study was led by J. Alan Pounds, the resident biologist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica. In an accompanying commentary, two scientists not involved in the research say it provides "compelling evidence" that warming caused by human activity was already disrupting ecology.

"The frogs are sending an alarm call to all concerned about the future of biodiversity and the need to protect the greatest of all open-access resources - the atmosphere," write the scientists, Andy Dobson, a Princeton University ecologist, and Andrew R. Blaustein, a zoologist at Oregon State University.

This fungus is a major problem in wild populations of frogs and may be what was responsible for the sudden extinction of the Golden Toad of Monteverde.