EUROPE: The sixth mass extinction, formally known as the Holocene extinction, could spell the end of the human race and according to a new study; it might already be well underway. And it doesn’t end there, as the study’s authors claim that humans are likely to blame. Dinosaurs disappeared sixty-five million years ago in what is known as the fifth mass extinction.
CNN reports that the past five mass extinctions on Earth were caused by large-scale natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and meteors, which wiped out anywhere between half to over 95 percent of all of the living species on our planet. According to the researchers behind the study, which was published in the journal Science Advances, the latest mass extinction does not come as a result of freak acts of nature, but instead, it’s as a result of man-made changes to the environment such as overfishing, deforestation, poaching and global warming.
Pakistan to get $3b loan from Islamic Trade Financing Corporation
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