MASS EXTINCTION
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The Current Mass Extinction:
Human
beings are currently causing the greatest
mass extinction of species since the extinction of
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If present trends
continue one half of all species of life on earth will
be extinct in less than 100 years, as a result of
habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species,
and climate change. (For details see links below.)
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Mass Extinction
Underway, Majority of Biologists Say
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A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a "mass extinction"
of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the
next century, yet most Americans are only dimly aware of the problem, a poll
says.
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