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Why the Frogs Are Dying; Climate change is no longer merely a matter of numbers from a computer model. With startling swiftness, it is reordering the natural world.(Cover story)
Byline: Mac Margolis (With Lindsay Whipp in Monteverde, Karla Bruning in New York and Fernando De Freitas in Darwin, Australia)
Draped like a verdant shawl over Costa Rica's TilarAn Mountains, the Monteverde cloud forest has long been a nature lover's idyll. Hidden birds flirt to the whisper of rushing streams and epiphytes tumble from the mist, while delicate flowers bloom impossibly from the jungle's maw. With luck you might even catch the iridescent flash of the resplendent quetzal, the elegant symbol of the Central American rain forest.
There's one member of this pageant that won't be turning up, however: the Monteverde harlequin frog. Named after ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Why the Frogs Are Dying; Climate change is no longer merely a matter...