Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

In the past, history has seen mass extinctions caused by catastrophic ... contributing to an uptick in the spread of disease, ...

The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat loss, climate change, and human activity. This video explores the evidence ...

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population ... in the face of the current mass extinction. But thousands of others, many never known to science, are likely to ...

Human activity—causing land use change, global warming, and pollution—are driving heightened extinction rates and population declines across many taxa. Some scientists argue we’re currently facing a ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

Human extinction should be a "hot topic" for our ... the extreme devastation and killing capabilities of weapons of mass destruction. Add to this the threats of nuclear weapons of war used in ...

On the Economics of Extinction and Possible Mass Extinctions This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species.

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population ... in the face of the current mass extinction. But thousands of others, many never known to science, are likely to ...