Humans are Accelerating the World’s Sixth Mass Extinction

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Humans are Accelerating the World’s Sixth Mass Extinction

Humans are Accelerating the World’s Sixth Mass Extinction

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds more than 500 terrestrial vertebrates are “on the brink of extinction," and the rate at which species are dying out has vastly sped up in recent decades.

Habitat loss, pollution, and wildlife trade are all to blame.

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