Species Extinction
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The Extinction of Species ............................................................................................................................ 3 Web of life unravelling, wildlife biologist says ........................................................................................ 3 Nations risk economic collapse and loss of culture if it does not protect the natural world .................... 3 The thing about extinction ..................................................................................................................... 3 Speeding Towards Biosphere Collapse ................................................................................................ 3 NASA video showing climate shift 1880 through 2012 .......................................................................... 4 In 1964, Isaac Asimov Imagined the World in 2014 Embedded video .................................................. 4 Dr. Andrew Weaver - Climate Scientist on the Tar Sands ...................................................................... 5 The sixth extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert ................................................................................................. 5 Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? ......................................... 5 Stanford biologist warns of early stages of Earth's 6th mass extinction event ....................................... 6 Defaunation in the Anthropocene .......................................................................................................... 6 Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 ............................................................................................. 6 The Nature of Things - Jellyfish Rule! ................................................................................................... 7 Earth 'entering new extinction phase' - US study .................................................................................. 7 New report suggests Earth on the brink of a great extinction ................................................................ 7 NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us ........................ 7 Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies ...................................................................................................................... 7 Indicators of Ecological Collapse .......................................................................................................... 8 Last Hours Climate Change documentary from The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann ........................ 8 The study - Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services ............................................. 9 Humans an Invasive Species Heading for a 'Crash,' Study Says .......................................................... 9 20 Percent of Plant Species Could Go Extinct ...................................................................................... 9 First Mammal Goes Extinct Due to Human-Caused Climate Change ................................................... 9 Crocodiles and Palm Trees in the Arctic? New Report Suggests Yes. .................................................. 9 Are We Looking At A Mass Extinction Event? ..................................................................................... 10 Thom Hartmann, The Big Picture - Are We Looking At A Mass Extinction Event? ............................. 10 Humans Are Driving 'Unprecedented' Mass Extinction in Oceans ...................................................... 10 The Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction May Be Underway ......................................................................... 11 ‘By 2050 half the forms of life we know will be gone’ – conservation biologist Embedded video ......... 11 Welcome to the Anthropocene ............................................................................................................ 12 World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years' ............................................................................................... 12 World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report 2016 ................................................................................... 12 Sixth mass extinction? Two-thirds of wildlife may be gone by 2020: WWF ......................................... 12 Blame for Extinction Spreads to Methane Gas ................................................................................... 13 Primates facing 'extinction crisis' ......................................................................................................... 13 Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change ..................................................... 14 Climate-Related Local Extinctions Are Already Widespread among Plant and Animal Species .......... 14 Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction ................... 14 Biologists think 50% of species will be facing extinction by the end of the century ............................. 15 Era of ‘Biological Annihilation’ Is Underway, Scientists Warn .............................................................. 15 The Extinction Event Gains Momentum .............................................................................................. 16 The Sixth Extinction: Climate Change May Wipe Out a Third of World's Parasites ............................ 16 Canada's threatened species declining despite federal protection ...................................................... 17 The chance of 'catastrophic' climate change completely wiping out humanity by 2100 is now 1-in-20 17 The study: New Climate Risk Classification Created to Account for Potential “Existential” Threats .... 17 Canada is actually running short of bugs ............................................................................................ 18 Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers .................................... 18 More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity' ...................................... 19 First U.S. Bumblebee Officially Listed as Endangered ........................................................................ 19 Industrial farming is driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, says leading academic ............ 20 Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 ........................................................................................... 20 Bee gone: Scientists turn to technology as declining bee numbers threaten global food security ....... 20 1 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Are Warning Humankind We Are Screwed ............................. 21 World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: .............................................................................................. 21 Area of Global Dead Zones Doubling Every 10 Years ......................................................................... 21 We just went through 2018's Earth resources in only 7 months .......................................................... 22 Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050 ............................................................ 22 Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Frogs Are Disappearing. What Does That Mean? ............................................................................... 23 Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis ................. 23 Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds ..................................... 24 Earth Has Seen CO2 Spike Before. It Didn’t End Well. ....................................................................... 24 Building blocks of ocean food web in rapid decline as plankton productivity plunges ......................... 25 Living Planet Report 2018 - WWF ....................................................................................................... 25 More than 50 Australian plant species face extinction within decade .................................................. 26 Washington authorities to put Cooke Aquaculture’s salmon farms under “strongest water quality protections we can put in place” ......................................................................................................... 26 Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence cod could be extinct by mid-century: report ........................................ 27 Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 ........................................................................................... 27 SongbirdSOS - The Nature of Things with David Suzuki .................................................................... 27 Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature' .................................................................. 28 World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity ..................................................... 28 Destruction of nature threatens humanity 'at least as much as' climate change, warns UN - 29 Apr 2019 .................................................................................................................................................... 29 Plant extinction