mass extinction – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:02:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction | Science Advances https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/06/accelerated-modern-human-induced-species-losses-entering-the-sixth-mass-extinction-science-advances Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:13:57 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=15051 Unknown

 

“The evidence is incontrovertible that recent extinction rates are unprecedented in human history and highly unusual in Earth’s history. Our analysis emphasizes that our global society has started to destroy species of other organisms at an accelerating rate, initiating a mass extinction episode unparalleled for 65 million years. If the currently elevated extinction pace is allowed to continue, humans will soon (in as little as three human lifetimes) be deprived of many biodiversity benefits.”

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