{"id":471180,"date":"2022-01-15T18:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T18:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=198666"},"modified":"2022-01-15T18:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T18:52:56","slug":"strong-evidence-shows-sixth-mass-extinction-of-global-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/15\/strong-evidence-shows-sixth-mass-extinction-of-global-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Evidence Shows Sixth Mass Extinction Of Global Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive assessment of evidence of this ongoing\u00a0extinction\u00a0event was published recently in the journal\u00a0Biological Reviews\u00a0by biologists from the University of Hawai'i at M\u0101noa and the Mus\u00e9um National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>\"Drastically increased rates of species extinctions and declining abundances of many animal and plant populations are well documented, yet some deny that these phenomena amount to mass extinction,\" said Robert Cowie, lead author of the study and research professor at the UH M\u0101noa Pacific Biosciences Research Center in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/strong-evidence-shows-sixth-mass-extinction-of-global-biodiversity-in-progress\/\">Strong Evidence Shows Sixth Mass Extinction Of Global Biodiversity<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/strong-evidence-shows-sixth-mass-extinction-of-global-biodiversity-in-progress\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 activiti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3058,5605,33309,5722,3024],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471181,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471180\/revisions\/471181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}