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It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may be underway, this time caused entirely by humans. Although considerable evidence indicates that there is a biodiversity crisis of increasing extinctions and plummeting abundances, some do not accept that this amounts to a Sixth Mass Extinction.
22 wrz 2023 · What triggers a mass extinction? How does a mass extinction impact the evolution of life? How does our ecosystem recover after a mass extinction? These questions attracted the interest of both scientists and the public alike.
13 sty 2022 · FULL STORY. 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...
15 sie 2022 · Earth has experienced five mass extinction events over its 4.5 billion-year history. A sixth mass extinction is underway as a result of human-driven climate change.
5 sie 2021 · A growing body of literature supports the hypothesis that we may be in the early days of the 6th mass extinction. Habitat encroachment is worse than ever, and there is no sign of its relent, yet without nature, humanity cannot survive.
8 wrz 2023 · Since 1980, research on the causation of mass extinctions has been characterized by a ‘bandwagon effect’, in which a model developed for one specific mass extinction is claimed to apply to many or all biocrises, reducing agency to a single cause.
20 paź 2022 · Indeed, we can see the evaluative component of extinction being deployed in environmentalist movements around the world. The concept of mass extinction features frequently in the writings associated with environmentalist groups, e.g. in the name of the group Extinction Rebellion.
