Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The book's title is similar to a 1995 book title, The Sixth Extinction by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. Also included are excerpts from interviews with a forest ecologist , atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira , wildlife and conservation experts, a modern-day geologist, and fungus researchers in New England and New York State .
Extinction: The Facts is a 2020 documentary film by the natural historian David Attenborough which aired on the BBC. It depicts the continuing sixth mass extinction, caused by humans, and the consequences of biodiversity loss and climate change. It also suggests positive action which can be taken to halt or reverse these effects.
Mass extinctions are characterized by the loss of at least 75% of species within a geologically short period of time (i.e., less than 2 million years). [18] [51] The Holocene extinction is also known as the "sixth extinction", as it is possibly the sixth mass extinction event, after the Ordovician–Silurian extinction events, the Late Devonian extinction, the Permian–Triassic extinction ...
Conservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.
According to a study published in the journal 'Science Advances', planet Earth is entering its sixth period of mass extinction. One of the authors noted, "If it is allowed to continue, life would ...
A growing number of scientists believe a sixth mass extinction event of a magnitude equal to the prior five has been unfolding for the past 10,000 years as humans have made their mark around the ...
The Late Ordovician mass extinction sees a massive global cooling that wipes out a majority of life on Earth, causing many invertebrates to retreat to the deep sea and leaving the vertebrates with a path to dominance. In the Devonian, a family of Dunkleosteus, one of the largest new vertebrates, hunts ammonoids [c] using a vital new adaptation ...
It was the most severe extinction event of the past 500 million years, wiping out 80% to 90% of species on land and in the sea.