Human activity has accelerated extinction rates, raising concerns that we may be entering a sixth mass extinction.
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Why the sixth mass extinction is here. Now.

A report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), specifically looking at the impacts of climate change. It makes for grim reading. The report tells us that climate change ...
Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...
Sixth mass extinction is erasing not only biodiversity but humanity’s, cultural stories and spiritual ties The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one ...
The government report warned ecosystem degradation was 'occurring across all regions', placing the UK's self-sufficiency at ...
Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.
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The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a UN body, has identified ...
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The now-former congresswoman says she's sorry about all that, so here's a refresher on how bad it actually was ...