"Is Earth headed for its sixth mass extinction?"

By owner - Published on Thursday, 31 July 2014 08:23

"Earth’s biodiversity, the product of 3.5 billion years of evolutionary trial and error, is the highest in the history of life—but it may be reaching a tipping point.

A new review, published in Science, cautions that the loss and decline of animals is contributing to what appears to be the early days of the planet’s sixth mass biological extinction event."