Telegraph: For species in flatter, low-lying regions such as deserts, grasslands, and coastal areas, the pace of the retreat could exceed more than half a mile a year, it is claimed. Creatures and plants only able to tolerate a narrow range of temperatures will be most vulnerable, said the researchers. Those unable to match the migration speeds needed to escape the effects of global warming could vanish into extinction. Plants in almost a third of the habitats studied were thought …