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    A little extra global warming will mean a lot more habitat loss for plants and animals, study says

    by Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times May 18, 2018 3 minutes

    What difference does half a degree Celsius of global warming make?

    To many plants and animals, and especially insects, it could mean the difference between life and death, according to a new study.

    In a paper published Thursday in Science, researchers report that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the average pre-industrial global temperature would avoid half the risks of global warming to plants and animals and two-thirds of the risk to insects compared with 2 degrees of warming.

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