A recent article in Science Magazine predicts that Australia will be one of the countries with the highest risk of extinctions worldwide, as temperatures increase above 1.5°C.

The December 5 piece by Mark Urban, from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, suggests that global warming is likely to cause a rapid increase in the risk of extinctions around the world above 1.5°C, the limit agreed under the Paris Agreement.

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Under the highest emission scenario, approximately one third of species globally would be at risk of extinction.

The paper, which draws on 485 studies worldwide, considers extinction risks under future climate scenarios. The extinction risk varies depending on geography, ecosystem type and other factors.

Species from Australia, New Zealand and South America are most at risk, it reports, as........

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