Strong evidence shows process is already underway caused by human activities The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass Extinction crisis is underway, this time entirely caused by human activities. A comprehensive assessment of evidence of this ongoing extinction event was published recently in the journal Biological Reviews by biologists from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France. Shells of land snails from Rurutu (Austral Islands, French Polynesia) -- recently extinct before they were collected and described scientifically. Phot: O. Gargominy, A. Sartori “Drastically increased rates o...
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