Mammal Extinctions Are Speeding to an Unprecedented ‘Second Wave’, Scientists Warn – ScienceAlert

To the innocent eyes of animals, the appearance of humans on the horizon represents more of an existential threat than the vast environmental upheaval of previous climate change up until now, new research suggests.
According to a new study, mammal extinctions tracing back as far as 126,000 years ago have had more to do with the negative impacts of humanity than any past climate factors, which themselves appear to predict past extinctions no better than random chance.
Worse still, calculations …

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