SYDNEY Record-breaking summer heat waves in recent months have left Australians sweating and uncomfortable and killed thousands of animals, graphically illustrating the dangers that climate change poses to the world's driest inhabited continent.
Flying foxes, loggerhead turtles among animals dying amid extreme heat

A flying fox clings precariously to its perch amid the intense heat of Australia's "angry summer." (Photo by AJ Caruana, courtesy of WIRES).
SYDNEY Record-breaking summer heat waves in recent months have left Australians sweating and uncomfortable and killed thousands of animals, graphically illustrating the dangers that climate change poses to the world's driest inhabited continent.