On the impact of humans, per El País, "these data have led many scientists to argue that we are facing the sixth mass ...

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The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat loss, climate change, and human activity. This video explores ...

Human activity—causing land use change, global warming, and pollution—are driving heightened extinction rates and population declines across many taxa. Some scientists argue we’re currently facing a ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

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We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis ... and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass extinction differs from all ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible.

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change. The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms.