sixth mass extinction

Talk is cheap, says the acting executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, who begged governments around the world to make sure that 2020 is not another year of conferences and empty promises, but instead is the year to take decisive action to stop the mass extinction of wildlife and the destruction […]

The United Nations wants to stop the sixth mass extinction. In a draft proposal released Monday, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity proposed protecting 30 percent of the planet by 2030, CNN reported. “If adopted, this target could achieve what our children have been calling on governments to do – listen to the science,” explorer-in-residence […]

With the consequences of human activities pushing Earth into a sixth mass extinction, a team of biologists have calculated that plant and animal species are being wiped out so quickly that evolution cannot keep up. Human activities—including pollution, deforestation, overpopulation, poaching, warming oceans and extreme weather events tied to climate change—are predicted to drive so […]

Human civilization utterly depends on our precious food supplies, but the planet’s sixth mass extinction of plants and animals currently underway is also threatening the world’s food crops, according to a new report from Bioversity International. “Huge proportions of the plant and animal species that form the foundation of our food supply are just as […]

As the U.S. continues to deal with unprecedented floods and hurricanes, a new study has revealed climate change is also driving the mass extinction of parasites that are critical to natural ecosystems, and could add to the planet’s sixth great mass extinction event that’s currently underway. The report in the journal Science Advances warns that […]