Publication Date June 13, 2016 | The New York Times

Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct by Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

Bramble Cay

rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change.

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“The key factor responsible for the death of the Bramble Cay melomys is almost certainly high tides and surging seawater, which has traveled inland across the island,” Luke Leung, a scientist from the University of Queensland

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