The dinosaur represents fossil fuels as well as extinction, including perhaps our own extinction.
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Recent estimates suggest that the current extinction rate is 100 to 1,000 times the natural extinction rate.
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Scientists have begun to speak of functional extinction (as opposed to the more familiar kind, numerical extinction).
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The natural rate of extinction, called background extinction, is a part of evolution and is typically pretty low.
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For comparison, the researchers said animal extinction is occurring at least 1,000 times faster than the normal rate of extinction, however the report notes that researchers believe the plant extinction rate has been underestimated.
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The extinction of languages occurs with a much higher speed than the extinction of species of animals or plants.
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Regardless of how scientists define a "great extinction event," Steen notes that a significant extinction crisis is inarguably happening now.
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It was a mass extinction, and by definition a mass extinction affects all kinds of organisms in all the environments.
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Sharkwater: Extinction Amazing, majestic, infuriating, beautiful, sad—these reactions were all part of the experience I had watching Sharkwater: Extinction.
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Opinion: Saving black rhinos from extinction The black rhino is one of 1 million species on the edge of extinction.
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We may be entering a sixth mass extinction Over the course of Earth's history, there have been five mass extinction events.
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As populations dwindle and species inch closer to extinction, each extinction is a mark on the legacy of our own species.
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Earth is currently losing species at mass extinction rates: we are entering a sixth mass extinction and one species is responsible: us.
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Protesters stage a funeral march for mass extinction in an event called for by the groups WGT-Guide and Extinction Rebellion-Leipzig.
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Taking the form of a Chao Gong with the earth-and-hourglass extinction symbol on the front, "Extinction Gong," (2017) by Crystelle Vu and Julian Oliver, crashes to the tragic tune of the current, highly accelerated global species extinction rate.
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Anyone who sees "the Talk," goes through nonviolence training, and agrees to Extinction Rebellion's core principles can start their own Extinction Rebellion cell.
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"The K/Pg extinction is one of the largest mass extinction events," study author Maureen O'Leary from Stony Brook University explained to Gizmodo.
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Some experts believe this caused the greatest mass plant and animal extinction in human history, bringing the species to the brink of extinction.
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"Extinction Rebellion's latest target is McKinsey & Co, the world's leading management consultants, high priests of global capitalism," Extinction Rebellion said in a statement.
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"Extinction Rebellion's latest target is McKinsey & Co, the world's leading management consultants, high priests of global capitalism," Extinction Rebellion said in a statement.
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"If ... we're at fault for extinction, we're also on the hook for coming up with a way to try to undo that extinction," says Douglas McCauley, an ecologist and conservation biologist at UC Santa Barbara, who's also been critical of de-extinction projects.
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Within 21.5,216 years of the mass extinction, their body mass had become 2252 times bigger than the mammals living immediately after the mass extinction.
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But it's also incredibly important to study what happened during the fifth mass extinction because many scientists believe we're entering the sixth mass extinction.
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The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Be Like Nothing In Earth&aposs HistoryThe sixth mass extinction—the one that seven billion humans are doing their darnedest to trigger at …Read more ReadSadly, we are in the midst of another mass extinction event, one of our making.
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Extinction Rebellion protester dressed as Donald Trump hands out leaflets in the South Terminal at Gatwick Airport during an Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate change protest.
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"We will have taken many species that weren't threatened close to extinction, if not to extinction," said an ecologist and botanist at Curtin University, in Perth.
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That's probably because we are accustomed to thinking about the extinction of animal species in a different way than we think about the extinction of humans.
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At risk of extinction The United Nations recently warned that Malawi's albinos are at risk of "total extinction" amid escalating attacks against them for their body parts.
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He later integrated footage from Fiat Lux into his 2015 documentary Racing Extinction, which explains how human action has led to the mass extinction of many species.
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Plant munching crocodyliforms appeared almost immediately after the end-Triassic mass extinction and they hung around until the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, according to the new research.
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But many researchers believe we're currently in the middle of a mass extinction event, one that's seeing species wiped out at 50 times the normal extinction rate.
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Both sleep techniques – graduated extinction and bedtime fading — decreased the time it took children to fall asleep and graduated extinction reduced night wakings, compared to the control group.
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"We will have taken many species that weren't threatened close to extinction, if not to extinction," said Kingsley Dixon, an ecologist and botanist at Curtin University, in Perth.
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"We did not want Extinction Rebellion to adopt the usual NGO approach to Africa where they just run around planting the Extinction Rebellion banner in a typical colonial manner," said Kofi Klu, part of Extinction Rebellion's international solidarity committee and an organizer with an African environmental coalition called Stop the Maangamizi.
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They survived an even greater extinction event: the Permian Extinction, when volcanoes in Siberia erupted for a solid 100,000 years, blotting out nearly 96 percent of all marine life.
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The battle is one the earth is losing as this sixth extinction, a man-made extinction, wreaks its havoc on land, water and air, on our plants and creatures.
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Quotable: "We will have taken many species that weren't threatened close to extinction, if not to extinction," said Kingsley Dixon, an ecologist and botanist at Curtin University in Perth.
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The British organization also remains substantially white, and some involved in Extinction Rebellion's international solidarity efforts say that many older Extinction Rebellion members regard these projects with a "colonial" attitude.
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"There's a possibility the mammoths died out before humans arrived and it's possible humans caused their extinction, hunted them to extinction," said geologist Dan Muhs of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The brink of extinction All eight species of the pangolin -- four Asian and four African -- are threatened with extinction in the 51 countries where they live, according to the report.
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One of the largest extinction events happened around 250 million years ago—the Permian-Triassic mass extinction—which occurred shortly after the observed increase in the rate of asteroid impacts.
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Only about 2000 percent of invertebrate species have been studied enough for us to estimate whether they are in danger of extinction, never mind what dangers that extinction might pose.
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Our planet is currently in its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals, and it's the only mass extinction that's caused by us, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Zelman sees the Sixth Mass Extinction—the human-driven "biological annihilation" that scientists say is sending extinction rates skyrocketing for only the sixth time in the planet's history—as an atrocity.
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In studying tree rings on fossils from before and after the extinction, Gulbranson surmises that only one species of tree existed in this carbon dioxide rich ecosystem prior to the extinction.
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Despite many people rating extinction "somewhat likely" in the next 15 years, few people rate the causes of extinction as among their top policy priorities for the next president or Congress.
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This tragedy was preventable — extinction is a political choice.
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Giraffes — the world's tallest animal — are vulnerable for extinction.
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The risk isn't extinction — but it's extremely dire nonetheless.
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On that last point, a complete catalogue of Earth's vertebrate species could serve as a safeguard against extinction—both in terms of preventing extinction, and possibly reviving extinct species in the future.
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If you take stock of all the studies that point to the fact we're living in an age of mass extinction, perhaps even the sixth mass extinction, it can all feel overwhelming.
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"Volcanic activity in the late Cretaceous [period] caused a gradual global warming event of about two degrees, but not mass extinction," said Henehan, who compiled the paleotemperature records spanning the extinction event.
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"We will have taken many species that weren't threatened close to extinction, if not to extinction," Kingsley Dixon, an ecologist and botanist at Curtin University, in Perth, told the New York Times.
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The two snapshots of the woolly mammoth genome, one while it flourished and the other near extinction, support the idea that there is genomic meltdown in small populations that contributes to extinction.
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The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Be Like Nothing In Earth&aposs HistoryThe sixth mass extinction—the one that seven billion humans are doing their darnedest to trigger at …Read more ReadSadly, this study strengthens the argument that we're heading towards the greatest mass extinction of animal life since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago.
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What's more, a quadruple whammy of habitat destruction, exploitation, invasive species takeovers, and relentless climate change has left a whopping 1 million species threatened with extinction, with extinction rates now "tens to hundreds of times higher" than the normal rate of extinction over the last 10 million years, according to the U.N. Stuck on a present idea?
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Disturbingly, some scientists theorize that the Ordovician-Silurian extinction—a mass extinction event that happened on Earth some 440 million years ago—was caused by a gamma-ray burst within our own galaxy.
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Scientists are also monitoring the captured frogs for the deadly pathogen chytridiomycosis—or chytrid—a fungus that's responsible for the extinction or near-extinction of 200 amphibian species, National Geographic reported last year.
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The extinction of the Siberian unicorns, therefore, can now be connected to the late Quaternary megafaunal extinction, an event that witnessed the end of the wooly mammoth, Irish elk, and saber-toothed cat.
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"Ultimately, all of this is important to raise public awareness of the rapid extinction of species we are now facing and that we, as humans, are most likely culprits of their extinction."[Science]
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To try and answer this question, we compared the growth patterns of Permian (pre-extinction) and Triassic (post-extinction) therapsids -- they were the ancient ancestors of mammals -- by looking at their bone microstructure.
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If you take stock of all the studies that point to the fact that we're living in an age of mass extinction, perhaps even the sixth mass extinction, it can all feel overwhelming.
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In the theater itself, an 'Extinction Gong' by Julian Oliver and Crystelle Vũ goes off every 19 minutes, the average rate of the extinction of species worldwide, according to Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson.
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They prevailed as the dinosaurs fell, through extinction after extinction, obstinate and mostly unchanging; according to the fossil record, a fern from 180 million years ago was almost identical to its descendants today.
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The fourth film, "Age of Extinction," in particular, excelled internationally.
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The sixth extinction would be the first caused by humans.
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Beneath the surface, there's evidence of a mass extinction brewing.
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JAMES WILLIAMS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Are they at risk of extinction?
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The Gear VR doesn't seem to be facing imminent extinction.
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There's no reason to assume this Mastodon will avoid extinction.
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Is this the sort of process that leads to extinction?
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The impetus for the Wrangel mammoths' extinction was unique, too.
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A of ensuring an endangered species was kept from extinction.
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Bumblebees' decline points to mass extinction – study, The Guardian reports.
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Earth existed without us and will exist after our extinction.
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The first was to save the party from imminent extinction.
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By that time they were on the edge of extinction.
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We're stampeding towards the edge of the cliff of extinction.
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Joshua trees already face threats of extinction from climate change.
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Netflix has a reputation for saving series right before extinction.
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Not to mention the whole saving humanity from extinction thing.
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We've brought endangered species back from the brink of extinction.
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Tragically, all three species appear to be edging toward extinction.
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Proceeds will go to the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion.
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And it could save these eight rare species from extinction.
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Amid the dark extinction news, though, there are encouraging developments.
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Right whales were hunted nearly to extinction by commercial whalers.
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It's the leading cause of species extinction and rainforest destruction.
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Wolves, rhinos and other animals are being slaughtered to extinction.
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Rising seas, mass extinction, super droughts ... it's not good. 750.
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This is pushing several species to the brink of extinction.
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Even so, Christiano's first scenario doesn't precisely envision human extinction.
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There are some obvious businesses that will gradually face extinction.
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Following Carlos Ghosn's downfall, they are in danger of extinction.
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Each time the blancmange is threatened with extinction, it changes.
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Not everyone thinks extinction scenarios are a top priority, though.
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She now believed that her people might be facing extinction.
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Reagan himself set liberal Republicanism on the path to extinction.
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Are the baseball gods finally lining him up for extinction?
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Some numbers, too, are slowly and subtly sliding into extinction.
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Throughout Australia, the dire extinction rate is expected to worsen.
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Myth: We don't know what caused the dinosaurs' mass extinction.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers, primed for extinction, staged an inspiring stand.
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North America has already lost nearly 85033 species to extinction.
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Conservation efforts of the great auk led to its extinction.
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Researchers are working to bring heath hens back from extinction.
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Now we seem to have moved to its actual extinction.
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Possibly, predators such as toothy whales hunted them to extinction.
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No, this isn't a joke, this is a mass extinction.
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" Jacobs: "The audience knew that we were leading towards extinction.
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I believed that the subculture was in danger of extinction.
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Many scientists believe a sixth mass extinction is now underway.
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But desert tortoises are teetering on the edge of extinction.
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In the latter case, cancer threatens the species with extinction.
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And some species are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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"Records really are in danger of extinction here," Yessel added.
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This genetic variation may be the key to avoiding extinction.
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The rate of extinction is just really alarming for me.
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That might not sound like a figure heralding certain extinction.
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Further reading: The world is facing a major extinction crisis.
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A dedicated group of Tokyo craftsmen saved it from extinction.
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"Population extinction has been a part of human history forever."
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Australia has the worst mammal extinction rates in the world.
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The Australian government subtly declared the rats' extinction in February.
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Humankind is not poised teetering on the edge of extinction.
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"The form this extinction takes is silence," Ms. Herzog said.
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"One million species are in danger of extinction," she said.
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But Extinction Rebellion works on a different model of change.
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Earlier this year, Extinction Rebellion brought London to a standstill.
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The condition applies specifically to the Extinction Rebellion 'Autumn Uprising.
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A smattering of midseason replacements, most doomed to quick extinction.
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In the 1970s, bald eagles were in danger of extinction.
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However, Extinction Rebellion has stressed the Heathrow action is separate.
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"Our work does not contradict the extinction crisis," she insists.
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Suddenly, almost everyone agreed that human extinction was uniquely bad.
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U2 "The Blackout" (Interscope) Is democracy facing an "extinction event"?
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There are also shows about superbugs, computers, extinction and more.
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One series focuses specifically on species that are facing extinction.
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All mythologies are subject to erasure by colonization or extinction.
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Their evolution, geographic coverage and extinction are almost entirely mysterious.
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Humanity is on the brink of a sixth mass extinction — the "Holocene" extinction — and thanks to mankind's alteration of the world, it's coming at a rate 215 times faster than every other before it.
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Countless plant and animal species are currently at risk of extinction largely due to the ways humans have transformed the Earth's ecosystems, according to a comprehensive new report — and the rate of extinction is accelerating.
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In the course of ten days, over 1,700 protesters from Extinction Rebellion, a protest movement that through nonviolent direct action seeks to raise the alarm on extinction and other ecological crises, were arrested in London.
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Earth has entered its sixth mass extinction For years, scientists have warned that we are in the midst of a mass extinction -- the sixth in the planet's history, and the first one caused by humans.
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A professor of conservation biology at the University of York in the UK, Thomas does not deny that humans have already caused a "mini mass extinction" — an era of accelerated extinction rates around the globe.
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The effects, if intense enough, could plausibly cause a mass extinction.
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Rating: The complete and total extinction of the white rose varietal.
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The protesters belong to the group Extinction Rebellion — XR for short.
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That's what's broken — and that's what's really compelling about Extinction Rebellion.
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We are witnessing a mass extinction of all kinds of businesses.
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The world's most trafficked animal is just decades away from extinction.
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I chastise him quietly for contributing to the extinction of sharks.
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Earth is undergoing a mass extinction — and that's bad for everyone.
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The first mass extinction event has always been tough to study.
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Along that path lies the extinction of the Great Barrier Reef.
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A MILLION SPECIES of animals and plants are threatened with extinction.
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The singer, 44, recorded "Manta Ray" for the documentary Racing Extinction.
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Up to 1 million: Total number of species threatened with extinction.
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In past mass extinction events, body size didn't matter that much.
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This difference in "extinction selectivity" can be explained by different drivers.
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Languages, like species, experience cycles of evolution, proliferation, and often extinction.
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This might not be the only mass extinction caused by volcanoes.
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Human-introduced predators have nearly driven the Floreana mockingbird to extinction.
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Humans have been driving things to extinction for a long time.
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Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.
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And will Extinction Rebellion make a difference in setting that target?
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Their culture and people are moving closer to extinction every day.
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It's a fight against the extinction of free thought and spirit.
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Chernobyl is also a monument to the extinction of Soviet civilisation.
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We are in the midst of a mass extinction in retail.
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We are now in the early stages of a mass extinction.
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Others were supposed to be put on the road to extinction.
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That then disrupted marine food webs and sparked a mass extinction.
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This was the most severe extinction event to happen on Earth.
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Habitat destruction threatened the bat with extinction, U.S. wildlife managers said.
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Many messages expressed anxieties about the gradual extinction of Tibetan culture.
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Does that mean even machine learning programmers are facing employment extinction?
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The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago, five great extinction events.
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The world's tallest land animal is on the verge of extinction.
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According to the report, how many are at risk for extinction?
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When we drive a species to extinction, is that like murder?
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Experts warn that the fish might soon be pushed into extinction.
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But there's plenty the government can do to avert its extinction.
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Feature Feral felines are driving the country's native species to extinction.
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The continent has the highest mammal extinction rate in the world.
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Fur hunters soon drove the seals to the brink of extinction.
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The extinction of hopes for Palestinian independence will generate future trouble.
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But extinction is not the only tragedy through which we're living.
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"We're looking at the very real possibility of extinction," he said.
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Would the extinction of the pupfish be too great a price?
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Evidence exists that their extinction was because of overhunting by humans.
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This can drive global warming that can fuel a mass extinction.
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Given those numbers, surely grizzly bears are not threatened with extinction.
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Don't sell tickets to witness the extinction of just one bug.
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But the effort to save the subspecies from extinction lives on.
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It was a linguistic bonobo: endangered, possibly en route to extinction.
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Innumerable animals have perished, with many species likely pushed to extinction.
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At the moment, though, hookah is on the verge of extinction.
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For mass extinction, what about filming an African northern white rhino?
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If we don't do something now, we are looking at extinction.
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On many islands, for example, birds are now threatened with extinction.
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As a species, we are facing an unknown threat, perhaps extinction.
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There is talk of global warming, extreme weather, and mass extinction.
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Protest movements such as Extinction Rebellion continue to radicalise the young.
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Once hunted nearly to extinction, their population is sharply declining again.
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A great extinction is under way across most of the planet.
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Others fear they could be used to deny the mass extinction.
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And because of the weak plans, extinction remains a real threat.
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It's possible that humans spread diseases that brought about their extinction.
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The earth's sixth mass extinction, scientists warn, is now well underway.
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That was not enough for Extinction Rebellion, which organized the protest.
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The Rapa Nui had come within a hair's breadth of extinction.
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Image: WikimediaIf the fact that the Earth is careening toward a sixth mass extinction event makes you uncomfortable, good news: it turns out, the biosphere may have rebounded "quickly" after the worst mass extinction in history.
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Monday's research adds to the broader scientific debate about the "sixth extinction" — which is likely happening to the planet right now, and might be the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago.
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The modern extinction rate is the highest it's been in human history, and is "tens to hundreds of times" higher than the normal rate of extinction over the last 10 million years, the UN report concluded.
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Like a professor par excellence, it's addressed ecological vulnerability and land management, extinction and de-extinction, the plight of endangered species and the dangers of invasive ones, and, most recently, the real costs of climate change.
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There's a lot of debate about the Pleistocene extinction in North America, but in the Caribbean it's a little clearer: sloths were around after the continental extinction, but as soon as humans arrived they were gone.
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Read more about mass extinctions: Earth Is On The Cusp Of A Sixth Mass Extinction Life on Earth will look dramatically different by mid-century Forget being 'on the edge' — Earth is entering a sixth mass extinction
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By comparing the extinction threat faced by modern marine genera (as indicated by their official conservation status) with their ancestral counterparts, Payne and his colleagues discovered that modern extinction threat is more strongly associated with body size.
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The Protoss are only a couple of bad moves away from extinction.
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By comparison, graduated extinction typically takes a few days before it's successful.
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The Northern white rhino species is one tragic step closer to extinction.
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The extinction of the typewriter made typography less rigid and more proportional.
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In the age of human-induced mass extinction, frogs face great peril.
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Google itself is involved in the effort to spare pangolins from extinction.
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A contestant experienced a scary medical emergency on Survivor: Edge of Extinction.
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In the Russia of 4A Games' Metro: Exodus, the bomb brought extinction.
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We know how to prevent the sixth mass extinction, according to experts.
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Now, some of Iraq's religious and ethnic minority communities teeter on extinction.
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If we do that, he said, we can avoid the sixth extinction.
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Yet change has never led to the extinction of old media formats.
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Just a year later, the vaquita is now even closer to extinction.
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That makes them more vulnerable to extinction if their population is depleted.
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There is nothing left to do but watch an extinction taking place.
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Is the American Republican Party facing an extinction-level event this year?
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But at this rate, Canon's going to hunt these margins into extinction.
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An Extinction Rebellion protest on April 17, 2100, in New York City.
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Whereas rat-size mammals survived the extinction event, raccoon-size ones perished.
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In short, the long incubation time could have contributed to their extinction.
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Humans have bludgeoned, battered, hunted, fished, and driven countless animals into extinction.
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But de-extinction can take place on a less futuristic scale, too.
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Sure, some scientists (like Church) think de-extinction is a great idea.
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It's a formidable power, and unfortunately, it's on the brink of extinction.
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So, why should Winden's little time travel dilema cause a mass extinction?
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Over a third of insect species, they claimed, are threatened with extinction.
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Their extinction could result in the loss of years of scientific research.
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Then there's always the current mass extinction that animals today are suffering.
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Will we soon see another wave of bird extinction in the Americas?
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Allen Lane; £20Humans have consigned species to extinction at an alarming rate.
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A mass extinction, by definition, means three-quarters of all species disappear.
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The ESA is often credited with saving the bald eagle from extinction.
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Go deeper: 60% of wild coffee species are in danger of extinction
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Hedge funds are facing an extinction-level event, Bobby tells his employees.
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Recently, though, I've found myself sympathizing with those fighting against species extinction.
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Meanwhile, Edge of Extinction is the most fun part of the show.
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"Extinction 2112 is coming, that's my prediction," he said at one point.
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Protecting these species from extinction matters for several reasons, the authors wrote.
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He portrays a Mars colony as a hedge against Earth-bound extinction.
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A charismatic blue parrot, however, was perhaps the year's most publicized extinction.
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However, 16 varieties are currently considered to be in danger of extinction.
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Elephants are natural, but so are the poachers driving them to extinction.
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Some 11 percent of these newly discovered birds are threatened with extinction.
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An "endangered" listing means that a species is in danger of extinction.
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For 30 years, Chelsea Clinton has wanted to save elephants from extinction.
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All proceeds will go to a climate protest organization called Extinction Rebellion.
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These establishments are certainly playing a role in staving off butchery's extinction.
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The questions: Where does the science and technology on de-extinction stand?
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He didn't design the Edge of Extinction twist, he just maximized it.
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It's been 20 years since the world escaped the clutches of extinction.
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In fact, it was R. & B. that was at risk of extinction.
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It would not stop mass deforestation or the mass extinction of animals.
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Privacy and liberty are never more than one generation away from extinction.
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All previous mass extinction events were caused by large scale, environmental catastrophes.
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Now, rather than a meteor impact, extinction is brought about by humans.
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By the 1700's, humans had hunted the species nearly to extinction.
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But of South Africa's 38 cycad species, 25 are threatened with extinction.
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The biggest gain was about 44 minutes, in the graduated extinction group.
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Put another way: This particular extinction is "more severe" than previously thought.
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"Extinction is looming," Center for Whale Research founder Ken Balcomb told CNN.
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If nothing is done, the monarch butterflies could face extinction, Pelton warned.
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His most recent monograph is Trading to Extinction published by Dewi Lewis.
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That brings me to the extinction rate of species around the world.
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I study extinction events, and I see what's happened in the past.
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"When you have smaller populations, they're more vulnerable to extinction," Snider noted.
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"Someday soon, there will be an extinction event on Earth," Musk said.
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In the longer term though, even those jobs are ripe for extinction.
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In delicate ecosystems around the world, they threaten other species with extinction.
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Again, you're eating something sweet, but now you're thinking about extinction. Yikes.
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It's what civilization looks like as it approaches the brink of extinction.
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We have turned right whales back from the edge of extinction before.
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Hunting in the early 20th century made the nene face near extinction.
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"All of them would be highly at risk of extinction," says Hoines.
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The worldwide extinction of species and natural ecosystems, however, is not reversible.
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Divide and Preserve: Reclassifying Tigers to Help Save Them From Extinction 153.
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But the science behind such a "de-extinction" would be bogglingly complex.
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It has been theorized that they were hunted to extinction by Māori.
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But now the organization faces permanent extinction in a matter of weeks.
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Years of loose credit have enabled weak companies to stave off extinction.
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Some of the environmentalists from the Extinction Rebellion and Shell Must Fall!
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"Traders in ivory actually want the extinction of elephants," Mr. Millar says.
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Overall, a quarter of shark and ray species are threatened with extinction.
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Back when they'd started out, no one was working Extinction Witnessing events.
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It's a hopeful note following an extinction that mostly occurred between acts.
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Their extinction may effect entire food webs, perhaps even harming human health.
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Extinction Rebellion has been holding protests in London for about two weeks.
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"The condition applies specifically to the Extinction Rebellion 'Autumn Uprising,'" he said.
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What are your thoughts about the extinction of this one particular bird?
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It said that the trees were on the verge of commercial extinction.
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Some of the environmentalists from the Extinction Rebellion and Shell Must Fall!
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Judy Chicago — The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction Through Jan.
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Even in the last few generations before extinction, there was little inbreeding.
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Extinction Rebellion protesters blocked the Mall with makeshift encampments and drumming circles.
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Extinction Rebellion advocates civil disobedience, leading to arrests for disruption, not destruction.
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Small-scale protests have occurred worldwide under the Extinction Rebellion banner regularly.
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Worse still, the earth itself is threatened by climate disaster and extinction.
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For the moment, North Slavey is not on the verge of extinction.
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The global reef crisis does not necessarily mean extinction for coral species.
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Protagonist Sam Bridges is living in a world where extinction is preordained.
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They surveyed thousands of people about how they think about human extinction.
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"We are facing a human extinction crisis," said Hoda Baraka of 350.
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The crisis: A mass-extinction event wiping out all life from Earth
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As evolution would a few decades later, extinction upset the old cosmologies.
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Nearly all of the many primate species are at risk of extinction.
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Realistically, such encounters are little bumps on our collective proverbial extinction meters.
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Bee extinction, scientists warn, could lead to a global food shortage crisis.
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Insects' extinction rate is eight times faster than that of larger animals.
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At some point, the lines of extinction and speciation will cross again.
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The "Extinction Gong's" automation troubles the direness of the event it commemorates.
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The effort resembles in some ways the popular de-extinction projects that are attempting to resurrect the woolly mammoth or the passenger pigeon; all want to reverse extinction and in some cases, fix the damage humans have done.
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"Beyond suggesting that the last mammoths were probably an unhealthy population, it's a cautionary tale fora living species threatened with extinction: If their populations stay small, they too may accumulate deleterious mutations that can contribute to their extinction."
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Parfit argued that almost everyone thinks of the difference between the first scenario (no catastrophe) and the second scenario (mass, non-extinction catastrophe) as much bigger than the difference between the second scenario and the third (human extinction).
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For an idea of just how grim Earth's modern day human-caused extinction crisis already is, the report provided some historical perspective: At least 680 vertebrate species have been driven to extinction by human actions since the 16th century.
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It could, he believed, be akin to—if not bigger than—the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago and the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction that cleared out the dinosaurs and led to the Age of Mammals—and us.
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Derocher acknowledges that hunting polar bears isn't what will drive them to extinction.
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A lot of people — including me — were skeptical about the Edge of Extinction.
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But the Blue Dog Democrat has been pushed to the brink of extinction
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Reports of humanity's imminent extinction have been greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain.
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A beloved kitchen supply store in Manhattan faces extinction after its owners' divorce.
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In the early '80s, the California condor almost scavenged its way to extinction.
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Issues like extinction and climate change play out over decades, centuries and millennia.
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That's because scientists say we are entering a new age of mass extinction.
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The resulting precipitation resulted in the widespread extinction of many native microbial species.
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The information could help scientists in their efforts to protect orangutans from extinction.
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And rabbits have led to the extinction of several native species in Australia.
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She believes that the extinction is probably due to a combination of factors.
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Scientists still hope to save the subspecies from extinction using in vitro fertilization.
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But it is wrong to dismiss the possibility of human extinction as "claptrap".
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And I'm afraid that this is going to drive us right into extinction.
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He's said Britain's political parties face "extinction" if they fail to deliver Brexit.
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The artist's job is "a continual extinction of personality," T. S. Eliot said.
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There's also the practical issue of how we'd drive the pests to extinction.
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Their speakers fret that the advance of Portuguese will drive them to extinction.
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If insects really do face extinction, it would be an immense environmental crisis.
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We're also continuing to see the almost-complete extinction of inter-state war.
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It's also a statistic that puts the African elephant on course for extinction.
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Spoiler Alert: The following post contains spoilers for the ending of Netflix's Extinction.
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The species is said to be extremely vulnerable to extinction in the wild.
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Thirty years ago, the northern white rhino would have been doomed to extinction.
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Others take issue with the very idea of using biotechnology to prevent extinction.
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction.
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Read on for a look at 2018's top contenders for culinary extinction.
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Yet the extinction "her people" face never loses its terror, or its wonder.
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Right now, we're witnessing the sixth mass extinction that Earth has ever known.
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However, one genus survived the extinction event and continued to thrive long after.
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction.
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By 1841, when Owen coined the term "dinosaur", extinction was an accepted fact.
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The real questions: How best to go about proceeding with de-extinction considerations?
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The big debate: whether we are beginning a sixth mass extinction on Earth.
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Paleontologists thought life emerged slowly, recuperating steadily from the end-Permian extinction event.
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Giraffes are in the process of a "silent extinction," experts reported last year.
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These measures—and meticulous surveillance—have brought the Guinea worm close to extinction.
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Once abundant, the desert tortoise is being driven towards extinction by increasing urbanization.
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If so, we just might have an edge in the next mass extinction.
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The northern white rhino, a subspecies of the white rhino, is near extinction.
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The discovery may prompt scientists to reconsider their earlier assumptions about mass extinction.
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"Concrete has a huge environmental impact," said Eleanor McAree, 25, from Extinction Rebellion.
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The most recent, Age of Extinction, broke even domestically, but struck gold internationally.
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But if the caliphate is on the verge of extinction, ISIS is not.
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One of the ways to go about it is to look at extinction.
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A summer heatwave and Extinction Rebellion's activism have given environmental issues a fillip.
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It's up to these humans to stop the re-extinction of the dinos.
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They are at risk now of being marginalized or even brought to extinction.
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It already has among the highest rates of species extinction in the world.
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But I'm very encouraged by the young people, who've got extinction revolution going.
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We're now losing species at 85033,000 to 10,000 times the background extinction rate.
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Your paintings are often rooted in scientific issues — climate change, extinction, invasive species.
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Will it take a worldwide wetland blitzkrieg to save frogs from mass extinction?
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About 40% of invertebrate pollinators, especially bees and butterflies, are facing extinction worldwide.
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The moderate and conservative Democrat is coming back from his days of extinction.
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Also facing extinction: a $7,500 federal tax credit for buying an electric car.
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Out of 124 types of wild coffee, 75 are at risk of extinction.
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The demise of Steller's sea cows helped convince scientists that extinction is possible.
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Beavers were common in Britain until they were hunted to extinction centuries ago.
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Steam locomotives went the way of the dinosaurs, driven to extinction by diesel.
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Varieties are being rescued from near extinction and put back into broader use.
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Ultimately the goal is to reduce the impact of the ongoing 'sixth extinction.
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Rothman argues that mass extinction happens when one of two thresholds are crossed.
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The new discipline, termed "de-extinction," is as controversial as it is young.
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Perhaps it isn't fair to drag a species back into another mass extinction.
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How does our family tree come out of this time of great extinction?
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At what point will the forces driving extinction swarm up and engulf us?
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She called for a new approach to save unions from extinction: sectoral bargaining.
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How would the extinction of up to a million species affect these benefits?
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As it slouches towards extinction, though, it's certainly going out with a bang.
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A new study this year suggests that it's on the verge of extinction.
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Environmentalists fear the bridge will hasten the extinction of endangered Chinese white dolphins.
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"We are on the brink of extinction," reads the group's petition on change.org.
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"We are on the brink of extinction," reads the group's petition on change.org.
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When he asked her what he could do, she suggested joining Extinction Rebellion.
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But without protected areas, many more species would have already slipped into extinction.
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However, this once vibrant hallmark of American consumerism is in danger of extinction.
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The platypus is being pushed to the "brink of extinction," according to scientists.
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"The police keep taking our stuff..." This is Coiley's fourth Extinction Rebellion kitchen.
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An entire generation or two of farm families are now threatened with extinction.
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That would make its extinction 3.6 million years ago, rather than 2.6 million.
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What was confounding to me was how little we know about that extinction.
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Extinction Rebellion, the climate activists, have announced plans to disrupt London Fashion Week.
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The prospect of our own extinction, far from horrifying, comes as a relief.
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Down by more than 99 percent, it's now on the brink of extinction.
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But don't worry too much about the extinction of the world's mammoth companies.
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They are leading the attempt to save the northern white rhinos from extinction.
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She and her colleagues then put the extinction filter hypothesis to the test.
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"What a pile of shite this is," Extinction Rebellion said in a statement.
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"This is what extinction looks like and it's happening right under our noses."
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What other species on the brink of extinction have been similarly managed before?
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The fact is, we give the possibility of human extinction very little thought.
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Jordan, however, says ObamaCare deserves extinction even if there is no ready replacement.
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Recent wildfires and hurricanes put some endangered species in critical danger of extinction.
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You said humans ate sloths to extinction in that part of the world?
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It is not the specter of mass extinction that is hanging over us.
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The extinction of plastic bags is coming, so you may as well prepare.
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Read more: Scientists say we're witnessing the planet's sixth mass extinction — and 'biological annihilation' is the latest sign According to several studies, Earth could already be undergoing a sixth mass extinction that would kill off most animal and plant species.
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"The loss of this critically important animal brings the species one step closer to extinction," Peter Pritchard, an international turtle authority and author of the book "Rafetus: The Curve of Extinction," said in an email from his home in Florida.
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Looking at the extinction crisis not only in terms of species that are on the brink but also those whose populations and ranges are shrinking helps show that "Earth's sixth mass extinction is more severe" than previously thought, the authors write.
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Most experts in the AI field think it poses a much larger risk of total human extinction than climate change, since analysts of existential risks to humanity think that climate change, while catastrophic, is unlikely to lead to human extinction.
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It always seems to be on the brink of extinction, but it always endures.
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"We think of it as we are living through an extinction phase," Bird said.
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Do you think we've reached a point where we're just staving off inevitable extinction?
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It's not unlike the kind of life that thrives after a mass extinction event.
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Though we've only just learned about this frog, H. hillisi is already facing extinction.
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The steps Canada is taking to save them from extinction are expensive for industry.
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Conservation groups call it an extinction sentence that would doom the last wild wolves.
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That extinction risk is serious, as we overfish oceans and contribute to global warming.
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You can add primates to the seemingly ever-growing list of animals facing extinction.
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If we're going to beat the sixth extinction, we have to believe it's possible.
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"If we're a single planet species, then eventually there will be some extinction event."
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The companies that don't prepare for self-driving risk failure or extinction, Intel says.
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There are currently 20173 plant species that PEPP is trying to save from extinction.
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You're there to fight back against extinction and walk through horrors to do it.
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"Federal protections may be the only thing standing between the bumble bee and extinction."
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More than 1,800 Extinction Rebellion activists were arrested during the October protests, police said.
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Within 100,000 years of the extinction event, mammals reached about 163 pounds (6 kg).
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What do you think drew scientists like Church and Stewart Brand to de-extinction?
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Today, key members of Extinction Rebellion will meet with UK environment secretary, Michael Gove.
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Protesters from Extinction Rebellion walk through Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, on June 27.
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European bison were hunted to the brink of extinction in the early 20th century.
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It's not surprising that this gets less viral attention than extreme, extinction-focused scenarios.
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At that time, the grizzly had been hunted, trapped and poisoned to near extinction.
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But reasons for the extinction of animals and decline of humans have been scarce.
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Snow leopards are no longer an endangered species; they're now considered "vulnerable" to extinction.
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Unsustainable fishing has left a number of shark species on the brink of extinction.
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Fishermen fear that the fish, and their livelihoods, are on the verge of extinction.
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In all, it found 30 percent of amphibian species were at risk for extinction.
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Plesiosaurs roamed Earth's oceans for nearly 150m years, until their extinction 66m years ago.
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The human race is headed for extinction if they can't move back to Earth.
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While the Conservatives sit in government, their membership is on the way to extinction.
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Dickinsonia costata, an Ediacaran organism that was wiped out during the first mass extinction.
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They changed the environment so drastically that it caused the extinction of previous life.
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The US bald eagle is also safe, though it was once threatened with extinction.
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America's involvement in a war could be the difference between Taiwan's survival and extinction.
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It's also the driving force behind Extinction, Netflix's latest end-of-the-world fare.
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Like The Others, Extinction decides to complicate things by making the victims the villains.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the species as vulnerable to extinction.
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But spending on species near extinction risks wasting money if they should perish regardless.
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Today, scientists estimate we're losing species at over 1,000 times the background extinction rate.
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New research suggests what the few extant onions that remain are headed towards extinction.
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Jaded observers lament the extinction of all blanks on the map of the earth.
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Lonesome George While we're on the topic of extinction, let's talk about Lonesome George.
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Oh, and at the Edge of Extinction, Keith and Wendy hoist the white flag.
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Scientists say immediate measures are now required to save this enigmatic species from extinction.
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Of course, honeybees like Buzz aren't actually the ones most in danger of extinction.
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About 220% of birds and a third of mammals are at high extinction risk.
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Tasmanian devils are on the brink of extinction, but there's a glimmer of hope.
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All have one thing in common: a desire to save endangered species from extinction.
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If worrying about imminent extinction is unrealistic, trying to hide from it is ignoble.
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The forces that drove them to extinction have been debated among scientists for decades.
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Animal life will be devastated, with some 1 million species at risk of extinction.
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The region's fossil history offers another place to study the K/Pg extinction event.
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Why it matters: The greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) has neared extinction once before.
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Necco brands — including Necco Wafers, Sweethearts, and Clark Bars — are in danger of extinction.
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Atticus Fleming, the outfit's head, calls this region the "epicentre of the extinction crisis".
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The Hawaiian herb, Amaranthus brownii, was placed on the infamous extinction list in 2018.
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Unfortunately, 40 percent of invertebrate pollinator species—particularly bees and butterflies—are facing extinction.
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The animals were hunted almost to extinction in the early to mid 20th century.
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The jury was likely already inclined to vote for an Edge of Extinction returner.
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Possibly enough to tip the balance to the extinction of the entire human race.
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The UN warns that Malawi's estimated 10,000 albinos face "extinction" if the killings continue.
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Groups fighting to prevent the extinction of bison had pushed for the federal designation.
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According to this study, the extinction began soon after Patagonia began to heat up.
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Giant pandas are no longer an endangered species; they're now considered "vulnerable" to extinction.
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It may, though, hold another record—for the swiftest passage from discovery to extinction.
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The UN estimates that 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction.
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However, the activism model is hardly in danger of extinction, bankers and lawyers said.
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The question is whether he's the dawning sun or an extinction-level-event meteor.
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It concludes that trophy hunting may be contributing to the extinction of certain animals.
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Thunberg said money raised from the track will go Extinction Rebellion, a nonprofit group.
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The Chinese luxury food trade has led the creature to the brink of extinction.
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Years of catastrophic illegal poaching have pushed African elephants closer and closer to extinction.
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EXTINCTION REBELLION ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP TO STAGE PROTEST IN FRONT OF BLACKROCK OFFICES IN LONDON
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Many of those languages are facing extinction, just like the species that live there.
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And they are chronicling the extinction of the independent family doctor across American communities.
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Deforestation is a driver of climate change — and is also a driver of extinction.
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They were hunted to extinction in the 19th century by British settlers in Tasmania.
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Prior to its extinction, scientists retrieved its cells with the intention of cloning it.
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Faced with the prospect of extinction, Local Councils began to drift into Nusra's orbit.
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These foxes face less than a 5 percent risk of extinction, the agency said.
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Climate change brings with it many existential threats — rising seas, acidifying oceans, species extinction.
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He wanted to make sculptures to spur the conversation around the extinction of bees.
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Or could de-extinction be one option in an all-of-the-above approach?
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Across 100 years, that figure would entail a 9.5 percent chance of human extinction.
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The species was nearly hunted to extinction for its blubber during the 20th century.
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As a result, one in five plant species worldwide is at risk of extinction.
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Invasive species are the second biggest driver of extinction worldwide, according to the IUCN.
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"Human activity has brought my kind to the brink of extinction," the narrator explains.
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"Just a guy sitting at home watching journalism being choked into extinction," it reads.
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Before record stores neared extinction, Sade was often stocked in the easy listening section.
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Nenes were once hunted nearly to extinction, but conservation efforts have bolstered their population.
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North Dakota is not simply another red state where Democrats are bound for extinction.
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Choose three and find out their extinction risk status and what threats they face.
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Bluefin's popularity on the plate has nearly brought it to the brink of extinction.
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What if we were in the middle of a mass extinction caused by humans?
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And now, just as during the Permian-Triassic extinction, the ocean is losing oxygen.
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He paints animals on the edge of extinction in this Dutch master portrait style.
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If the government wasn't talking about the climate, Extinction Rebellion would lead by example.
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"Extinction does not imply that genetic material is gone forever," he said via email.
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Extinction is a visceral tragedy, universally understood: There is no coming back from it.
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He lost his family as a consequence of the war, not by deliberate extinction.
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But on today's planet, large body size is correlated with a higher extinction risk.
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This is at the core: White extinction anxiety, white displacement anxiety, white minority anxiety.
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But the connection between the crash and the marine extinction has been less solid.
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That, and it confirms that the asteroid triggered the extinction in the first place.
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The document put Extinction Rebellion alongside organisations ranging from Islamic State to neo-Nazis.
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The Gondwanan forests have survived a continental breakup and a planetary mass extinction event.
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The Extinction Rebellion movement and "flight shaming" swept Europe, discouraging carbon-heavy air travel.
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The actions, led by activist group Extinction Rebellion, happened as the COP25 summit concluded.
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And would that help restore the caribou populations from near extinction to something sustainable?
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The world is now at a crossroads between "extinction or opportunity", said U.S. Rep.
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A climate change activist group, Extinction Rebellion Washington DC, posted a video on Twitter.
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"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction," she said at the summit.
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The move comes after police issued a London-wide ban on Extinction Rebellion's protests.
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This escalated in October, as Extinction Rebellion prepared to launch another wave of protests.
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The sixth extinction, fueled by climate change, is becoming our legacy to future generations.
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Extinction Rebellion environmental activists hold their flag during a demonstration in Paris in August.
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Extinction Rebellion climate change protesters block traffic during a rally in London, Oct. 16.
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New research finds that the extinction of this flightless bird was completely our fault.
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He witnessed the first human-caused extinction of a cetacean, the Yangtze River dolphin.
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"Consumerism is destroying our planet," Extinction Rebellion, an environmental group, said on social media.
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Therefore, humans would eventually need to colonize another planet or face extinction, he said.
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The course chosen by the Shakers was, quite evidently, the surest way to extinction.
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" Dr. Bennett said "he wouldn't want to close the door on de-extinction forever.
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The decline of a species, they note, is never a steady march to extinction.
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Far from facing extinction, Best Buy is poised for another year of solid growth.
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"It's quite alarming that extinction is accelerating, and everyone should be alarmed," he says.
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Without the Yangambi scientists' research, logging could doom one remarkable tree species to extinction.
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By the time whaling was banned in 1935, they were hunted nearly to extinction.
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On the other, it promises to fast forward the extinction of Ohio's Democratic Party.
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Extinction Rebellion is a network of climate activists across the globe doing just that.
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They wanted to control the bodies of women, and that led to an extinction.
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The waves were slow, but persistent, giving us ample time to prepare for extinction.
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Some have been hunted to extinction or their entire habitat has been plowed up.
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The statues' generic uniformity suggests a memorial to the ongoing biodiversity crisis of extinction.
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If you know your Earth history, you'll know that timeframe coincides with the end Permian extinction, wherein a series of volcanic eruptions sent billions of tons of carbon into Earth's atmosphere, triggering runaway climate change and the largest extinction event of all time.
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Importantly, the remains -- which were uncovered from a 2,300-year-old Chinese temple -- have evidenced the direct role of humans in Junzi's extinction, the first extinction of its kind among primates, according to a new study published in the journal Science on Friday.
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He posited it as humanity's fear of extinction, but I feel like it doesn't reduce it in any way to suggest that he's talking about a very specific kind of fear of extinction, not necessarily universal, the way he put it on paper.
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Climate change is actually causing an extinction crisis: One million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction as the world gets hotter due to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases like CO22015 in the atmosphere, a recent report from the U.N. found.
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A conservationist is using a counterintuitive method to the species from extinction A conservationist is using a counterintuitive method to the species from extinction An unprecedented rise in poaching over the last decade reduced the world's population of white rhinos to just 20,0003.
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With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned and trapped to the brink of extinction.
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When the animal died in early 2018, the species officially began its passage into extinction.
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Of the eight bear species, only two — black and brown — aren't threatened by global extinction.
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While certainly large enough to cause catastrophic local damage, this cannot explain the mass extinction.
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The most positive outcome is a soft landing, which is where we avoid mass extinction.
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As in nature, evolution is constant, because if you aren't getting better, you risk extinction.
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It is a revolt against the extinction of species including, the group says, our own.
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Schlossman calls the collection of images "Extinction," and he means that to be a verb.
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And by mass extinction he means three-quarters of all known species would be lost.
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We've lived with the threat of the extinction of life on this planet ever since.
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But by the 1930s, the magic lantern show was pushed to extinction by motion cinemas.
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The study's authors warned that Earth is on the path to another devastating mass extinction.
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"We need not marvel at extinction," Charles Darwin wrote in On the Origin of Species.
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Humans might've played a role in their extinction, too, though their involvement is less likely.
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The three-inch Delta smelt is a native California fish on the brink of extinction.
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Protests organized by the group Extinction Rebellion are planned throughout 220 cities over the week.
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The other is the last of his kind, a species on the brink of extinction.
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And now, suddenly, the PSDB looks far closer to extinction than its symbol, the toucan.
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Their numbers were falling so fast that they were almost on the edge of extinction.
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Climate change activists practice yoga on Waterloo Bridge during the Extinction Rebellion protest in London.
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A man in a Grim Reaper costume participates in an Extinction Rebellion protest in Germany.
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Extinction Rebellion blocks traffic on 8th Avenue in front of the New York Times building.
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"It's like the sun never sets on Extinction Rebellion," said one of the group's founders.
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You can see a kind of halfway version of extinction entertainment in Avengers: Infinity War.
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They also wanted to establish the layer at Corral Bluffs marking the mass extinction event.
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Some of the river fish, including the Delta smelt, are on the verge of extinction.
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This prevents too much geographical isolation, which can result in inbreeding and ultimately local extinction.
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Even as IS loses territory and comes closer to extinction, "City of Ghosts" feels bleak.
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He put the risk of human extinction by 2100 from our technologies at around 50%.
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Secretary birds are considered vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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Loss of habitat has brought many species, including the koala, to the brink of extinction.
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So those times are guaranteed at least a temporary reprieve from an otherwise looming extinction.
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Their idiosyncrasies restrict them to certain habitats and also make them more vulnerable to extinction.
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Brands need to go digital or face extinction, and they can start with mobile commerce.
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This suggests 9% of terrestrial animals (most of which are insects) are threatened with extinction.
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The other nominees include "Simple Song #3" from Youth and "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction.
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That, in the long run, reduces genetic diversity, putting a species at risk of extinction.
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Sea otters once thrived around the Pacific Rim before they were hunted to near extinction.
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The West Indian manatee is far less in danger of extinction, thanks to conservation efforts.
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The species was on the brink of extinction several decades ago due to commercial whaling.
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The researchers hope this might better prepare us for the mass extinction we're currently experiencing.
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But extinction is more than just unprecedented mass mortality; it requires getting rid of everyone.
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The goal is to raise the $9 million needed to protect the species from extinction.
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Among the attractions are bar-hopping lemurs (above) he brought in to save from extinction.
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Of that group, only 108 species are classified by IUCN as at risk of extinction.
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Scientists warn that we're potentially amidst a sixth mass extinction event, thanks to human activity.
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Cheetahs, the world's fastest land animals, are racing to the edge of extinction, conservationists say.
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The teenager has requested proceeds from the track go to climate activist group Extinction Rebellion.
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In Europe, for instance, 9 percent of bee and butterfly species were threatened with extinction.
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It's important because it marks a point in Earth's time line when massive extinction happened.
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And, of course, most people are sharing their thought about this beverage's extinction on Twitter.
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If they do not, higher education-inspired social mobility will be headed for near extinction.
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The species is "balancing precariously on the brink of extinction," the agency said on Tuesday.
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An all-out nuclear war could be an extinction event for complex life, including humanity.
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Tatá preserved the Yawanawá spiritual tradition even as the tribe faced extinction in the 1980s.
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Extinction threatens 22010 percent of amphibian species worldwide, and they are vanishing at alarming rates.
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Meanwhile the planet is burning, threatening humanity and indeed most forms of life with extinction.
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The extinction of Norwegian wolves in the first place caused other species to go extinct.
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And the antechinus illustrates that, but unfortunately, it's being pressured to the verge of extinction.
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According to the "experts," the Republican Party was at risk of extinction because of infighting.
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The species was considered under threat of habitat extinction as far back as the 1980s.
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They are part of Extinction Rebellion, a grassroots green movement launched in London in 2018.
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Climate change is on everyone's mind but it's really in tandem with the extinction rebellion.
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The Time Warner brand will go away, following last year's extinction of Time Warner Cable.
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This is called an "extinction burst" and if it happens, your message is sinking in.
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Long after the accepted date of extinction, Tasmanians kept reporting that they'd seen the animal.
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Mr. Greenblatt did what organisms threatened with extinction have always done to survive: He evolved.
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The "sixth great extinction" is on its way, warned Alec Baldwin, and humans are responsible.
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Nature reserves and endangered species protection are key weapons in our fight against mass extinction.
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They can support organizations that work to protect indigenous communities, curb deforestation and fight extinction.
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Still, there was evidence that also supported the graduated extinction, fading and scheduled awakenings methods.
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In 2003, the Pyrenean ibex was the first animal brought back to life from extinction.
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Feral cats are believed to have contributed to the extinction of the Stephens Island wren.
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Many species are edging toward extinction, according to a United Nations report released in February.
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Then, late in the Pleistocene epoch, a global extinction event caused cheetah populations to crash.
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The measured steps the Service has taken, however, have saved hundreds of species from extinction.
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It's not just little-known species that have been hit with extinction in modern history.
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But skating close to extinction has always been part of the history of the Rada.
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They will die one day, putting this seemingly endless experiment at particular risk of extinction.
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And de-extinction could present a moral hazard, undermining the urgency to preserve endangered species.
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This is an alternate history, however, taking place in a world where dinosaurs escaped extinction.
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Remember that little kid's song about dinosaur extinction that went viral a few weeks ago?
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Scientists estimate that the act has directly prevented the extinction of more than 200 species.
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The episode actually reminds me of the perennial de-extinction debate among scientists and ethicists.
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Certainly campaign groups, such as Britain's Extinction Rebellion, increasingly emphasise catastrophic risk above all else.
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"Everything was losing a lot of habitat, creating the risk of extinction," said Dr. Deutsch.
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Behind the royal drama was a quiet national unease — once again, the monarchy faced extinction.
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Is there anything we can do to protect endangered species, and slow overall extinction rates?
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And in this age of the Sixth Extinction, the collections are becoming even more vital.
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" For some publications, "this seems like for them truly it is the full extinction event.
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World scientists warn of extinction on an unprecedented scale -- 1 million species are at risk.
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And scientists believe the population needs to reach at least 225 million to avoid extinction.
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In truth, the extinction of the spare tire has been happening, if gradually, for years.
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Is Covid-19 their revenge on us for bringing them to the edge of extinction?
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It may have been kept as a pet, a practice that may explain its extinction.
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There, they will find a blueprint for the extinction of capitalism as we know it.
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Other reports pointed out that the eat-them-to-extinction idea had been proposed before.
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He fears "total war" and "extinction," not just of Western values but of civilization itself.
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The flash acidification and mass extinction, though ancient events, are relevant to our modern world.
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He argues that Extinction Rebellion is right not to "shame" people about what they eat.
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Elephants are dying off at a dangerously fast pace, with the population hurtling toward extinction.
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They included an immigration lawyer, a therapist, an Extinction Rebellion protester, an artist and me.
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"The animal could be on the verge of extinction — we simply don't know," said Robinson.
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"Double sixes might be a population gain, and snake eyes could be a final extinction."
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Trilobites New research finds that the extinction of this flightless bird was completely our fault.
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We&aposll even use technology to save animals from extinction and help people reinvent themselves.
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"Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing," she tells us.
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It was the second time Extinction Rebellion had shut parts of London in six months.
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According to the United Nations, up to 1 million species face a risk of extinction.
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Over the last nine days of protests, nearly 1,500 Extinction Rebellion protesters have been arrested.
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That, in turn, helped bring the species from the brink of extinction, Mr. Carrión said.
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Researchers say the species' complete extinction in the wild likely occurred between 2005 and 2010.
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Extinction Rebellion said its activists had sprayed 1,800 liters of fake blood at the Treasury.
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Our ancestors evolved tens of millions of years after the mass extinction of most dinosaurs.
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"We do not classify Extinction Rebellion as an extremist organization," she said in a statement.
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An environmental activist couple are married during an Extinction Rebellion protest in London, Oct. 7.
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Half a dozen fish species are inching toward extinction, scientists at the Bay Institute say.
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Hawking said humans will need to colonize another planet within 100 years or face extinction.
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Nothing less than the extinction of the nation's imperiled plants and wildlife is at stake.
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" Marcario ends on a rather urgent note, writing how "we must face extinction head on.
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By fathering hundreds, a giant tortoise in the Galápagos Islands reversed the threat of extinction.
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And both agree that the Deccan Traps probably played a part in the extinction event.
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By "pressing / this pen to paper, I was touching us / back from extinction," he writes.
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The same survey also revealed that 18% of respondents believe that human extinction will follow.
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There is no evidence of significant climate change during the time of the megafauna extinction.
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For "Islands," I felt that invasive species and extinction on islands was a big one.
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While Maya Lin clearly claims "yes," Gerrard's Flag series and "Extinction Gong," leave us wondering.
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" Another antinatalist who calls herself Charlotte says that she simply thinks extinction "would be kinder.
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That's according to a new study published by Vanderbilt University, which looks at the Earth's first mass extinction 540 million years ago and puts the blame on not something like a comet, but on the rapid evolution of species that drove older organisms to extinction.
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The authors of the study found that rising seas, which shrank the island's size, were not enough to cause extinction, but may have indirectly caused the extinction event: The swelling seas reduced available habitat and freshwater sources, making life difficult for the giant animals.
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" Species-level change The scientists note that we are likely in the beginning stages of a sixth mass-extinction event, but that "evolution and extinction rates are mostly too slow and diachronous to provide an obvious biological marker for the start of the Anthropocene.
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In an email, Extinction Rebellion spokespeople clarified that they don't actually know who is behind the account, but social media posts by a neo-Nazi group viewed by Motherboard shows them gloating about flyers and claiming that the group impersonated Extinction Rebellion in the past.
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Giraffes face "silent extinction", the Natural Resources Defense Council, a conservation group, said in a statement.
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But they're at serious risk of extinction as their migration patterns have been thrown wildly off.
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This ongoing extinction event is an obvious tragedy for the lush variety of life on Earth.
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Gases released by these eruptions may have altered the Earth's climate, resulting in the mass extinction.
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According to the census, populations in these regions face local extinction if immediate action isn't taken.
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Learn about the history of college sports, utopia, and extinction in America, among many other things.
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Invasive species led to the extinction of 13 species of island birds, according to the group.
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Without more information, such as archaeological or genetic evidence, the question of Neanderthal extinction remains unresolved.
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Deforestation is also impacting the rate of natural extinction, which is approximately 1 species per year.
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With no public plan for Nintendo to manufacture more, we inch closer to GameCube controller extinction.
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This means humans likely played a key role in the extinction of the island's large animals.
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The BNP, facing near-extinction with Khaleda's jailing, hopes it has found the lifeline it needed.
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" I've been reporting on the coming extinction crisis this year for a CNN series called "Vanishing.
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But he does not think that dinosaurs were doomed to extinction before 66 million years ago.
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Peltz recently starred in Transformers: Age of Extinction and appears in Zayn Malik's "iT's YoU" video.
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Habitats destroyed for palm oil There are several primate species already on the precipice of extinction.
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But studies estimate the current rate of extinction is 22 times higher than it should be.
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Today, scientists say nearly a quarter of all mammals and coniferous trees are threatened with extinction.
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IN 1989 the movement for democracy brought the Chinese Communist Party to within days of extinction.
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The world's ecosystems did not fully recover until some five million years after the extinction event.
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The discovery wowed botanists — and shows how technology can help conservationists in their fight against extinction.
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A climate change activist is detained during the Extinction Rebellion protest at Waterloo Bridge in London.
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The presentation, "Heading for Extinction (and What to Do About It)," shook Pepino to her bones.
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Cockroaches will reign on Earth — or maybe they won't, since there's a mass insect extinction underway.
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Where the manufactured world wears a slick corporate style, Extinction Rebellion brings color, texture and diversity.
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Outside the US, feral cats are responsible in the extinction of 63 species around the world.
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The asteroid collision that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs happened 63 million years before.
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Though it may be hard to sympathize, devil facial tumor disease threatens the creatures with extinction.
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Except for lately, when the exact timing of humanity's extinction is one of her immediate problems.
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The idea of "de-extinction" is the result of the most advanced technologies of our times.
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Critics of Extinction Rebellion say that the protests have caused unnecessary disruption and wasted police time.
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That could lead to local extinction, meaning that many species will move away from the tropics.
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