It turns out that the Sixth Mass Extinction event is not only well underway, but happening at a scale and pace far worse than previously thought.
New research has found that "48% of [all] species have declining populations and just 3% have rising populations. They also found evidence showing that 33% of species currently classified as nonthreatened on the IUCN Red List are actually spiraling toward extinction."
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-anthropocene-sixth-mass-extinction-event.html
Julian Oliver /
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