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A new scientific study warns that increasingly severe and prolonged droughts, intensified by climate change, pose extinction risks to certain cactus species long thought to be drought-resistant. Researchers found that even these hardy desert plants have physiological limits that extreme dry conditions can exceed, leading to population collapse.
A new scientific analysis finds that intensifying drought conditions combined with rising temperatures are increasing extinction risk for cactus species worldwide. The research draws on climate projections and ecological data to show that extreme climate events, rather than average conditions, are key drivers of range loss in these plants.
A new scientific study reports that cacti, often assumed to be resilient desert plants, are in fact severely threatened by intensifying drought conditions linked to global warming. Researchers found that many cactus species face significant physiological stress and risk under increasingly arid, hotter conditions.