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Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report by the conservation group WWF.
Our elimination of other species probably wasn’t a planned, coordinated effort of the sort practised by civilisations, but a war of attrition. The end result, however, was just as final.
Scientists say bug deaths can be cut by switching off unnecessary lights
Plants and animals came back much faster than thought, with plants spurring mammals to diversify, the team reports today in Science.
“These encouraging results suggest that not only are children increasingly engaged in advocating for their future, they are also effective advocates to their parents,” says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe
In the 1980s, roughly 4.5 million monarchs wintered in California, but at last count, there may be as few as 30,000
Scientists have identified 2 million species of living things. No one knows how many more are out there, and tens of thousands may be vanishing before we have even had a chance to encounter them.
Current extinction rates are 50 times higher than expected background rates, suggesting that another mass extinction event is underway
Once a species dies out, it's lost to us forever. Or is it?
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