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Topic: Mass Extinction

Planet Earth on fire (Getty Images/sankai)

Can humans wipe out all life on Earth?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A two-toed sloth (choloepus hoffmanni), perched high atop a rainforest tree (Getty Images/Kryssia Campos)

Sloths straining under climate change

Matthew Rozsa
A small river meanders through the Amazon rainforest. The world's largest tropical rainforest is crisscrossed by thousands of rivers. (Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Mass extinction: A choice we can reverse

Matthew Rozsa
A museum employee looks at a Dodo in display at the 'Extinction: Not the End of the World?' exhibition at The Natural History Museum on February 5, 2013 in London, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Experts warn of a "biological holocaust"

Matthew Rozsa
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Aerial View City in the US | Cancer Cell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are humans a cancer on the planet?

Troy Farah
Residents defend a property from a bushfire at Hillsville near Taree, 350km north of Sydney on November 12, 2019. - A state of emergency was declared on November 11 and residents in the Sydney area were warned of "catastrophic" fire danger as Australia prepared for a fresh wave of deadly bushfires that have ravaged the drought-stricken east of the country. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images) (Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

Australia: Urgent warning to the world

Heather Digby Parton
People are detained while participating in a direct action with a group protest organization called Extinction Rebellion on April 17, 2019 in New York City. The activists are demanding governments declare a climate emergency to combat pollution. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Extinction Rebellion: Weeks of action

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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How to avert a sixth mass extinction

Greg Asner - The Conversation
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Tech moguls want basic income

Valerie Vande Panne - Alternet
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Best time to be alive? Right now!

Émile P. Torres
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Meat and extinction

Laura Kehoe - The Conversation
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Trump and the real threat

Émile P. Torres
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Science: Yep, it's the end

Émile P. Torres
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The Sixth Extinction is here

Lindsay Abrams
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Lessons from the 'Great Dying'

Lindsay Abrams
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Oceans face mass extinction

Lindsay Abrams
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Failure for animal rights

Lindsay Abrams
Still from "Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink" (Smithsonian Channel)

Earth's epic "disappearing"

Joanna Rothkopf
Elizabeth Kolbert (MacMillan Publishers/Barry Goldstein)

Our growing extinction crisis

Lindsay Abrams

"The Great Dying" redux?

Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch.com
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