Global Biodiversity

Strong Evidence Shows Sixth Mass Extinction Of Global Biodiversity In Progress

(ORDO NEWS) — The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass Extinction crisis is underway, this time entirely caused by human activities. A comprehensive assessment of evidence of this ongoing extinction event was published recently in the journal Biological Reviews by biologists from the University of Hawai‘i at…