- A new study shows that the current rate of biodiversity decline in freshwater ecosystems outcompetes that at the end-Cretaceous extinction that killed the dinosaurs: damage now being done in decades to centuries may take millions of years to undo. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00167-x 58 comments science
Linking pages
- Humans are causing mass extinction at a rate not seen since the last major extinction event | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2021/06/01/humans-destroying-life-on-earth-faster-than-the-extinction-event-that-killed-off-dinosaurs/ 18 comments
- Biodiversity may take millions of years to recover from human impacts https://newatlas.com/environment/freshwater-biodiversity-mass-extinction-human-impacts/ 3 comments