Mass Extinction

By Tim Birkhead | – The common guillemot (known as the common murre in North America) breeds in both the Pacific and the Atlantic and is among the most abundant seabirds in the northern hemisphere. But like many other seabirds, its numbers have declined over the last few decades. Part of that decline is due […]

Climate Crisis

Actually we are implicated in the World’s 7th Mass Extinction of Life on Earth

The Watchers

By Julie Celestial | – (The Watchers) – The biodiversity crisis we experience today– defined by the rapid loss of species and rapid degradation of ecosystems– is believed to be the sixth mass extinction. However, some scientists say it should perhaps be called seventh, suggesting the inclusion of the End Guadalupian in the Big Five […]

Mass Extinction

Is our Civilization Causing the Sixth Great Mass Extinction in Earth’s History?

The Conversation

By Frédérik Saltré and Corey J. A. Bradshaw | – For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinctions have also always been part of the evolutionary life cycle. Humans are probably […]

Mass Extinction

Mysterious Mass die-off of Insects threatens Pollination, Food Supply

Nature

Most pollinators are insects (e.g., bees, flies, butterflies, moths, wasps, beetles, and thrips), and bees are the most important

Mass Extinction

Where have all the Creatures Gone? Long Time Passing… (Hint: We’ve Killed Them Off)

Tomdispatch

The Age of Biological Annihilation

Mass Extinction

Since 1970, Humans have Wiped out 60% of Animals with a Backbone

Marlowe Hood

Paris (AFP) – Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth’s capacity to accommodate humanity’s expanding appetites, the conservation group WWF warned Tuesday. From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals — were wiped out by human activity, according […]

Acidification of Oceans

Like Eating Fish? Then buy an electric Car and put up Solar Panels

contributors

By Jefferson Keith Moore | (The Conversation) | – – Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our food. In the oceans, most added heat from climate warming is still near the surface and will take centuries to work down into deeper waters. But as […]

Climate Change

Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land: Heart-Wrenching Climate Change Video:

contributors

National Geographic | – – Dec. 7, 2017 – This is what climate change looks like. This starving polar bear was spotted by National geographic photographer Paul Nicklen while on an expedition in the Baffin Islands. As temperatures rise, and sea ice melts, polar bears lose access to the main staple of their diet—seals. Starving, […]