Gary Bucciarelli and Bradley Shaffer in UCLA Newsroom: As climate change messes with temperature and precipitation, California newts suffer

A UCLA-led study, in the Nature journal Scientific Reports examined body condition of newts across their entire range, from San Diego to Mendocino. In the south, researchers discovered that body condition — a measure of health that compares weight to length — decreased by an average of 20% from 2008–2016.