Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down13
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-link‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?www.theguardian.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareMysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoExactly - current extinction rates are estimated to be 100-1000 times higher than the natural backround rate, which is why many ecologists started calling this the “Holocene extinction” decades ago.
Exactly - current extinction rates are estimated to be 100-1000 times higher than the natural backround rate, which is why many ecologists started calling this the “Holocene extinction” decades ago.