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The Survival of Earth Depends on Frogs… and Frogs are in Trouble

Juan Cole 05/28/2013

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Herbicides and pesticides threaten to wipe out one third of amphibian species in the coming decades.

A new study finds that frogs, toads and salamanders are disappearing much faster than earlier thought throughout the United States.

Link TV reported :

Uh, oh.

Here is the ‘Frog Survival Project’:

The amphibians were here before the dinosaurs and survived the Chicxulub Meteor strike that helped wipe out the latter. If they can’t survive whatever we are doing to the earth in the present, Anthropocene era, it isn’t a good sign for the larger mammals, either. That means you.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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