Evidence is mounting that a warmer world will lead to greater mortality of certain tropical forest species during increasingly common heat waves. Professor Pierre-Michel Forget, a Professor of Tropical Ecology at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, joins us to discuss how a rise in just one degree Celsius, is already impacting tropical rainforest ecosystems.

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Tags:  rainforest ecosystem,  global warming