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Here’s How Fast Different Animals Disappearing From Earth
Posted by Business Insider: Chelsea Harvey on December 30th, 2014
Business Insider: The red panda is ranked "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
From red pandas to golden-striped salamanders, Earth's wildlife is in trouble.
Many scientists believe our planet is in the early stages of a mass extinction, an event defined by a loss of 75% of species on Earth. It will be the sixth one to occur in the planet's 4.5 billion year history — and the first to be caused by humans.
But just how fast are species disappearing from Earth, and how much should...
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2014 was the year of the melting ice sheet
Posted by Quartz: None Given on December 30th, 2014
Quartz: Just as the planet swivels on the poles, so too does the fate of its coastlines. The disaster movie effects of climate change--drowning coastlines and raging blizzards, for instance--are tied to thawing ice sheets and glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctica. Research published throughout 2014 made this all the clearer--and scarier.
Here's a roundup of what we learned this year about melting ice sheets:
The melt rate in West Antarctica has trebled in the past decade
Though scientists have known...