
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/02/entire-species-are-being-wiped-out-ecologists-say-half-billion-animals-may-have-been" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/02/entire-species-are-being-wiped-out-ecologists-say-half-billion-animals-may-have-been&source=gmail&ust=1578231675134000&usg=AFQjCNFrecOlfln8YFbw7Dh9egzZOo3WdA" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">'</a><em style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">News Corp Australia</em><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/half-a-billion-animals-perish-in-bushfires/news-story/b316adb4f3af7b1c8464cf186ab9f52c" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/half-a-billion-animals-perish-in-bushfires/news-story/b316adb4f3af7b1c8464cf186ab9f52c&source=gmail&ust=1578231675134000&usg=AFQjCNEqTTFb0nxIC33XIoExQaxlw4us3g" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">reported</a><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""> Wednesday that "there are real concerns entire species of plants and animals have been wiped out by bushfires following revelations almost 500 million animals have died since the crisis began."</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/02/entire-species-are-being-wiped-out-ecologists-say-half-billion-animals-may-have-been" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/02/entire-species-are-being-wiped-out-ecologists-say-half-billion-animals-may-have-been&source=gmail&ust=1578231675134000&usg=AFQjCNFrecOlfln8YFbw7Dh9egzZOo3WdA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.commondreams.org/<wbr class="">news/2020/01/02/entire-<wbr class="">species-are-being-wiped-out-<wbr class="">ecologists-say-half-billion-<wbr class="">animals-may-have-been</a><br class=""></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class="">++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class="">"For decades, we called it ‘global warming,’ an innocuous-sounding phrase invoking a gentle increase in worldwide temperatures, like turning up the thermostat in a house.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/content/from-sea-to-rising-sea-climate-change-in-america" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seas.harvard.edu/content/from-sea-to-rising-sea-climate-change-in-america&source=gmail&ust=1578231675134000&usg=AFQjCNG5cIdZfhPhDcIYCMij6Ue_H1P80w" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.seas.harvard.edu/<wbr class="">content/from-sea-to-rising-<wbr class="">sea-climate-change-in-america</a></div></div></div><div class="">

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