"Our findings reveal how climate change and human activities can lead to megafauna ... of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms, Proceedings of the National Academy ...

that found around 1 million of Earth’s 8 million species are at risk of extinction due to human activity. Since the 1970s, global biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth, has declined by a ...

On a shrub-covered dune in San Francisco’s Presidio, biologist Durrell Kapan and a group of volunteers huddle around a tiny plastic condiment container placed delicately amid a cluster of ...

That was about 1,000 years before their extinction in other parts of North ... study that argues that wildfires due to increased human activity were likely to blame. Edward Davis is the director ...

Fresh research has revealed that marine animals are facing an unprecedented risk of extinction because of ... and ecosystems are impacted by human activities and climate change, the more ...

Anthropogenic extinction, which is driven by human activities, poses a severe threat to biodiversity worldwide. Professor Bridget B. Baker of the University of Florida's Wildlife Ecology and ...

The ramifications of human activity on the island of Madagascar ... and several other species are threatened with extinction due to human influences such as deforestation, hunting and climate ...

While it may sound like an accomplishment being able to wield so much influence we can alter our home planet, human activity has done ... but this mass extinction is largely human-driven.

Humans are driving this extinction crisis through activities ... have gone extinct naturally or due to causes unrelated to human activity. In a healthy environment, as species die off naturally ...

The current extinction crisis is entirely of our own making. More than a century of habitat destruction, pollution, the spread of invasive species, overharvest from the wild, climate change, ...

Both papers calculate the death rate on the basis of the “background rate of extinction”, which is calculated in the absence of human activity. Since 1900, on the background rate of 2 E/MSY ...

Extinction simply cannot be the way our story ... since all these dangers were the direct result of human activities. The threat environment was quickly becoming a dense obstacle course of human ...