Sentences with phrase «major animal extinctions»
CRITICAL — serious drop in food production, serious water shortages, significant sea level rise, political unrest, major drop in world GDP, major animal extinctions and millions of human deaths.
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The current extinction crisis threatening ocean animals is different from the five major past extinctions, according to a new study: the larger the animal, the greater its risk of extinction.
A major extinction thought to occur shortly after the dawn of complex animals may not have happened at all.
While habitat destruction has caused some extinctions, cats, foxes, and rats introduced around 1800 by British sailors have also played a major role, decimating native animals like bilbies and bandicoots — both small, ratlike marsupials found only in Australia.
Obviously exceptional survivors, these animals predate the advent of modern fish and have survived at least four major extinction events.
A poll survey report published in Washington Post «Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say» «A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a mass extinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the nexExtinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say» «A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a mass extinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the nexextinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the next century.
[215] Feral cats have had a major impact on these native species and have played a leading role in the endangerment and extinction of many animals.
This is what it said, â $ œThe responsiveness of species to recent and past climate change raises the possibility that anthropogenic climate change could act as major cause of extinctions in the near futureâ $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ Here we use projections of the future distributions of 1,103 animal and plant species to provide â $ ˜first - passâ $ ™ estimates of extinction probabilitiesâ $ ¦ â $ ¦.