Australia: Koalas Under Threat From Climate Change
Australia: Koalas Under Threat From Climate Change
Science Daily: New research shows increased temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are a threat to the Australian national icon, the koala. Professor Ian Hume, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and his students from the University of Sydney have been researching the effects of CO2 increases and temperature rises on eucalypts. Professor Hume’s group have shown in the laboratory that increases in CO2 affect the level of nutrients and ‘anti-nutrients’ (things that are either toxic or …
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