amphibians feel the heat

From the apocryphal story of frogs being boiled alive in gradually warming water to the construction of frog saunas against chytrid disease, everything you always wanted to know about amphibians and climate change is in my latest feature which is out now:

Amphibians feel the heat

Current Biology Volume 35, Issue 8, 21 April 2025, Pages R273-R275

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See also my new Mastodon thread where I will highlight all this year's CB features.

My mastodon posts are also mirrored on Bluesky (starting 22.2.2025), but for this purpose I have to post them again, outside of the thread. (I think threads only transfer if the first post was transferred, so once I start a new thread it should work.)

Last year's thread is here .

The pickerel frog (Lithobates palustris) is not endangered yet but appears in recent research as one of the species that may suffer from further climate warming. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Flickr (CC BY 2.0).)