- The gravity of the world’s current extinction rate becomes clearer upon knowing what it was before people came along. A new estimate finds that species die off as much as 1,000 times more frequently nowadays than they used to. That’s 10 times worse than the old estimate of 100 times. https://news.brown.edu/articles/2014/09/extinctions 11 comments science
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- Opinion | We Have to Save the Planet. So I’m Donating $1 Billion. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opinion/earth-biodiversity-conservation-billion-dollars.html 26 comments
- Wyss Foundation puts billion dollars toward conservation https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/conservationists-get-a-billion-dollars-from-wyss-foundation/ 13 comments
- How to backup life on Earth ahead of any doomsday event http://theconversation.com/how-to-backup-life-on-earth-ahead-of-any-doomsday-event-79271 0 comments
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