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Demonstrates protest during "Fire Drill Friday" climate change protest on December 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. Speakers address the ways in which climate change affects migration and human rights. The movement demands fast action for a "Green New Deal," including renewable energy by 2030, and no new exploration or drilling for fossil fuels, including the end to taxpayer subsidies to oil companies. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Civilization-ending change is upon us

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

An extinction crisis is coming to dinner

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Large beluga sturgeon in lake (Getty Images)

We're approaching fishpocalypse

Matthew Rozsa
Right Whale mother and calf (Getty Images)

Boats can't stop hitting right whales

Nicole Karlis
A large polar bear getting ready jump of a small piece of ice (Getty Images)

Polar bears may go extinct by 2100

Igor Derysh
Author Naomi Klein speaks at the Climate Crisis Summit before introducing U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at Drake University on November 9, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. Klein and Ocasio-Cortez have been campaigning in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT). (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Naomi Klein stumps for Sanders in NV

Nicole Karlis
In this July 8, 2015 file photo a bumblebee gathers nectar on a wildflower in Appleton, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Climate chaos driving bumblebee decline

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Platypus (Getty Images)

Why the platypus could go extinct

Nicole Karlis
(Suzanna Ruby/Getty Images)

Tracking the Florida panther’s comeback

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
The Dudleya Verityi succulent (Wiki Commons)

Millennials are killing rare succulents

Nicole Karlis
Kokia drynarioides, commonly known as Hawaiian tree cotton, is a species of flowering plant endemic to Hawaii that is critically threatened due to habitat loss and competition with invasive species. (David Eickhoff/Wikmedia Commons)

Earth's plant species are in peril

Lorraine Chow - Truthout
In this photo released by G20 Australia and taken on Saturday Nov 15, 2014, Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott and President of Russia Vladimir Putin hold koala's during a photo opportunity on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. (AP Photo/G20 Australia,Andrew Taylor) (AP)

Koalas are "functionally extinct"

Christine Adams-Hosking - The Conversation
A beached whale found dead is seen in Rosarito, Baja California State, Mexico, on May 21, 2018. (Getty/Guillermo Arias)

Humans are causing an extinction event

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Salon)

10 worst-case climate predictions

Lorraine Chow - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2010 file photo, steaks and other beef products are displayed for sale at a grocery store in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson

Matthew Ponsford - Alternet
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction by Britt Wray (Greystone Books/Arden Wray)

How to de-extinct a species

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/Aunt_Spray)

Male woolly mammoths were rebels

Keith A. Spencer
The skeleton of a prehistoric Spinosaurus at Drouot Montaigne auction house in Paris, Nov. 29, 2009. (AP/Francois Mori)

What really killed dinosaurs

Scott Timberg
(Screenshot, Youtube)

Rise of the "super-predators"

Lindsay Abrams
Mammoth reproductions in the visitors' center Ark Nebra in Nebra, Germany, March 29, 2012. (AP/Jens Meyer)

The Great Megafauna Massacre

Nassir Isaf
(AP/Andy Loveridge)

Jessica Phelan - GlobalPost
(Sergey Uryadnikov/Shutterstock)

The Sixth Extinction is here

Lindsay Abrams

Christina M. Russo - The Dodo
(Yakov Oskanov/Shutterstock)

Mass die-off stumps experts

Lindsay Abrams
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