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Species Decline and Mass Extinction: Are We Next?
ā€œEarthā€™s sixth extinction is already happeningā€”are we tracking it or ignoring it
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SUMMARY - Species Decline and Mass Extinction: Are We Next?

The current rate of species extinction is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times the natural background rate. Scientists increasingly use the term "mass extinction" to describe what's happeningā€”placing the current crisis alongside the five great extinction events of Earth's history. The last mass extinction, 66 million years ago, killed the dinosaurs. What's happening now may be comparable in scope, though not in cause. This time, the asteroid is us.

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