January 16, 2025 Palisades Lost archived 12 Jan 2025 10:29:37 UTC Source: Palisades Lost – The New York Times
goodshit The sixth mass extinction is the term for a human-driven, unusually rapid global loss of species and ecosystems. It is not a single future event: extinction risk and population declines are already widespread, although scientists debate exactly whether the formal threshold for a “mass extinction” has yet been crossed.