Sentences with phrase «sixth great extinction»

Renowned biologist E.O Wilson, assessing Earth's sixth great extinction now underway, described the future as a shrinking keyhole through which all species must pass as humanity responds to, and hopefully...

If we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction, as scientists tell us we are, our response has in no way been commensurate with the danger.

Thanks to humans, our planet is facing its sixth great extinction.

A June study offered the most damning evidence yet that the sixth great extinction is underway — and that it's driven by us.

We have entered into the sixth great extinction of the earth's species, according to many biologists.

While most ecologists bemoan the sixth great extinction in the planet's history, Thomas says we are also «on the brink of a sixth major genesis of new life».

As we live through the sixth great extinction, you ask «should we be focusing more of our efforts on saving...

WE MAY be living through the sixth great extinction.

As long as that goes up, the sixth great extinction builds momentum and speed.

It is good that the Pope is decrying consumerism, but until he addresses the fact that rich humans are literally eating the planet into its sixth great extinction, he isn't being very effective.

This book looks at what is happening to species on this planet at the moment, and argues that we are going through a sixth great extinction of species, this one driven totally by humankind.

Species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at least 1,000 times faster than they did before humans arrived on the scene, and the world is on the brink of a sixth great extinction, according to a new study published by the journal

We can still emit GHG's but we have to wind back to a point that doesn't significantly enhance the chances of fullfilling the «sixth great extinction» senario.

Thanks to the Anthropocene, the world is now in the middle of «its sixth great extinction event, with rates of species loss growing rapidly for both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

Earth's biodiversity has reached a peak and now it is declining into what many ecologists and biologists are calling the sixth great extinction.

And since biologists have argued that the double punch of habitat destruction and climate change could be precipitating a sixth great extinction, there has always been intense interest in the triggers of the previous five.

These include global climate change, drought and famine, overpopulation, diminishing resources, peak oil, the sixth great extinction, financial panic, and the spectre of war.

We're in the midst of the sixth great extinction right now, with the rise of humans being behind the unprecedented rise in the rate we're losing species.

Not a lot of people realise that we are actually living through what biologists are calling the sixth great extinction (ie we have lost half the species we started with in the last 50 years) so sharing all the recycling and refurbishing and sustainable choices made would be really good.