Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals

According to The Guardian, this year's red list of endangered species finds that life's most ingenious survival strategies are no match for human destruction. Some snails, limpets, and clams have adapted to crushing ocean depths around hydrothermal vents, where water can reach four hundred fifty degrees Celsius. Yet an assessment for the list found that two-thirds of the hundreds of mollusc species living only on those deep-sea vents are now at risk of extinction, driven by deep-sea mining. Newly endangered animals also include desert frogs, likewise threatened as human activity reaches ever further into the planet's most extreme corners.

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