Biodiversity crisis: Habitat loss and climate change causing 6th mass extinction

Bay Area Indymedia: Scientists meeting at the University of Copenhagen have warned that biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world, describing the loss of species as the 6th mass extinction event on the earth. The world is losing species at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, with the challenges of conserving the world's species larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. Related: Climate change and habitat loss threaten biodiversity, extinction......

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