Energy and Global Warming News for August 6th: Climate change could destroy 80% of rainforest by 2100 - Scientist: "Conservation of the world's biota, as we know it, will depend upon rapid, steep declines in greenhouse gas emissions."

Climate change could destroy 80 per cent of rainforest by next century:  Fewer than one in five of the plants and animals which currently live in the world's rainforests will still be here in 90 years time, a study predicts.

Rainforests currently hold more than half of all the plant and animal species on Earth.

However, scientists say the combined effects of climate change and deforestation may force them to adapt, move, or die.

By 2100, this could have altered two-thirds of the rainforests...