Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change

A new assessment of climate change risk finds that between a quarter and a half of all birds, along with around a third of amphibians and a quarter of corals, are highly vulnerable to climate change. The risk assessment was performed by scientists from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the organization that produces the Red List of Threatened Species. “When the Red List was invented, it was long before anyone worried about climate change,” says Wendy Foden of the IUCN in Cambridge. Read story here