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Earth on track for epic die-off, scientists say

SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-12-20
TOPICS: Climate Change • Global Warming • Extinction • Evolutionary Biology • Holocene Extinction • Pollution • Environment • Technology_internet

[149 diggs @ Environment] If the course of human history is any model, then the wheels are already turning on Earth's sixth mass extinction, thanks to habitat destruction, pollution and now global warming, a scientific analysis of millions of years of data revealed Friday. read more »

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