It's a mass extinction in the making.

We are going through a process of mass cultural extinction.

Disease is the bullet that's killing the frogs. But climate change is pulling the trigger. Global warming is wreaking havoc on amphibians, and soon will cause staggering losses of biodiversity.

But paradoxically, the losses of harlequin frogs were taking place in unusually warm years.

The basic message is that global warming is already causing species extinctions and a lot of them.

Global warming is wreaking havoc on amphibians and will cause staggering losses of biodiversity if we don't do something fast.