SAPA: Fynbos, a vegetation found only in the Western Cape, is under serious threat from climate change, according to recent findings by a team of scientists. University of Cape Town professor Michael Meadows and others found that winter rainfall for the province would decrease as the planet warmed due to a build-up of greenhouse gases. Some projections estimated that annual rainfall would reduce between 10 to 30 percent in winter rainfall zones by 2050, threatening more than 5500 endemic plant species....
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