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Scientists are becoming increasingly open to using local knowledge to understand how climate change could affect the world's most vulnerable, and often inaccessible, regions. But how useful are these data to science? Dan Whipple reports.
Why are harlequin frogs disappearing across the American tropics? A resifting of the evidence backs up the conclusion that global warming is a key conspirator in the losses.