Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A type of tropical cactus native to the Florida Keys has become the first species in U.S. history to become extinct due to rising ...

FISH. A TYPE OF TROPICAL CACTUS. NATIVE TO THE FLORIDA KEYS HAS BECOME THE FIRST SPECIES IN U.S. HISTORY TO BECOME EXTINCT DUE TO RISING SEA LEVELS. CERTIFIED FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST BROOKE ...

A rare tree cactus that grew for decades hidden by a tangle of mangrove trees on Florida's Key Largo has lost its battle with rising sea levels and other pressures. It's now considered locally extinct ...

Low-lying coastal areas like the Florida Keys, which are only a few feet above sea level to begin with, are particularly vulnerable to climate change-induced sea-level rise. A new study details the ...

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. It’s a grim first, but not last, as the ...

The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) was first identified in an isolated mangrove forest in 1992. It is native to the Bahamas, Haiti, and South Florida. But it doesn't grow naturally ...

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country. The ...

The last known stronghold in the country of the towering Key Largo tree cactus was a limestone island in an isolated mangrove forest, where it bloomed garlic-scented flowers in anonymity for ages ...

James Lange remembers the day he and a team of botanists and conservationists gathered at a rock formation encircled by a thicket of mangroves in Key Largo, Florida. They’d come to the nation’s last ...

The United States has seen its first local extinction due to rising sea levels, researchers have warned. The Key Largo tree cactus, once a rare but notable part of Florida's biodiversity, has ...

Low-lying coastal areas like the Florida Keys, which are only a few feet above sea level to begin with, are particularly vulnerable to climate change-induced sea-level rise. A new study details the ...