Current Events > Rising seas wiped out an entire US species for the first time.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/climate/florida-cactus-sea-level-rise/index.html

A unique plant has become the first species in the United States to be exterminated from the wild by the compounding effects of rising seas, scientists say. Its a grim first, but not last, as the scientists fear the demise of the plant is a bellwether for other species as the climate crisis tightens its grip.
The combined effects of sea level rise, rising tides and intense storms drove the wild Key Largo tree cactus population to extinction in its only known US location in the Florida Keys

But Biden old

Not even nature is safe from Florida man.

Climate change was not the primary cause of this species' demise, though. Its population was tiny to begin with, which is why climate change will be most devastating to island species, some of which only exist on a single small island.

The Key Largo tree cactus was initially found growing in the United States in 1992 at a single site. That population has since been lost to a combination of rising sea levels and increasingly intense storms.