India, Feb. 25 -- EXTREME HEAT THREAT TO 8,000 SPECIES:

A research published in the journal Global Change Biology said extreme heat due to climate change and land use change threatens to wipe out nearly 8,000 species of vertebrates including amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. The paper assessed how future extreme heat events under different scenarios of thermal limits can potentially impact almost 30,000 species. Under the worst-case scenario, 8,000 species are estimated to face unsuitable conditions across 52 per cent of their range.

CORAL COLLAPSE:

A study published in Science found two of Florida's most important and iconic reef-building coral species had become functionally extinct across Florida's coral reef, meaning too few...