A sixth of animals face extinction due to climate

Climate change could drive up to a sixth of animals and plants on Earth to extinction unless governments cut rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Species in South America, Australia, and New Zealand are most at risk, since many live in small areas or cannot easily move away to adapt to heatwaves, droughts, floods, or rising seas, according to the report in the journal Science.

It averaged out 131 previous studies of climate change, whose projections of the number of species that could be lost to climate change ranged from 0%- 54% of species worldwide — too wide to be useful in designing conservation policies.