{"id":1064914,"date":"2024-04-19T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1064914"},"modified":"2024-04-29T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:18:29","slug":"too-hot-for-a-lizard-climate-change-quickens-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/climate-change\/too-hot-for-a-lizard-climate-change-quickens-extinction","title":{"rendered":"Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISBEE, Ariz.&#160;&#8212; Boots dusty, lungs heaving, Dr. John Wiens searched the boulders of a desolate Arizona mountaintop for the last survivors of a 3-million-year-old lizard population &#8212; then said the words that both confirmed his life&#8217;s work and broke his heart.&#160;&#8221;They&#8217;re not there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It seems like the species is now extinct.&#8221;&#160;The loss of plant and animal species on Earth is happening at a speed never seen in human history, according to the United Nations. That includes the likely extinction of the lizards Wiens has studied for 10 years &#8212; the population of Yarrow&#8217;s spiny lizards found in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISBEE, Ariz.&#160;&#8212; Boots dusty, lungs heaving, Dr. John Wiens searched the boulders of a desolate Arizona mountaintop for the last survivors of a 3-million-year-old lizard population &#8212; then said the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}