Carlijn Simons via phys.org: "Strong evidence shows Sixth Mass Extinction of global biodiversity in progress"

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Strong evidence shows Sixth Mass Extinction of global biodiversity in progress ...

By Carlijn Simons - January 15, 2022

During it's lifetime, planet earth already experienced five waves of mass biodiversity extinction, new research shows. The difference with those and the current sixth one is, that the ones before were caused by extreme natural phenomena. While this time humans are to blame. We should be ashamed of ourselves.