Sentences with phrase «extinction at an accelerating rate»

At the same time, habitat destruction, pollution and hunting and fishing have begun to drive species to extinction at an accelerating rate.

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At that same time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collapsing.

We are decimating the natural environment, drawing down the nonrenewable resources of the planet at an astonishing rate, thereby accelerating the erasure of entire ecosystems and the extinction of thousands of million - year - old species — all in a few decades.

The entire amphibian class is currently afflicted by a global pandemic that is accelerating extinction at an alarming rate.