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Collapse of World’s Largest Herbivores; An Opera on Climate Change
Friday, June 5, 2015 13:59
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Collapse of the World’s Largest Herbivores. Sixty percent of large wild herbivores (body mass ≥100 kg) are threatened with extinction. Nearly all threatened species are in developing countries, where major threats include hunting, land-use change, and resource depression by livestock.
Al Gore inspires ‘CO2,’ an opera; a physicist lectures on climate change with a string quartet. ‘CO2′ features, for perhaps the first time in the history of opera, a climate scientist as its main character.
