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There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Assuming that humans continue to burn fossil fuels, the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and will become increasingly acidified.
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It was about three feet wide and stippled
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Ninety percent of all species on earth had been eliminated.
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With the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.
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so Durrant stroked the area around his cloaca
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According to Lamarck, there was a force - the 'power of life' - that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
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Lyell became something of a celebrity - the Steven Pinker of his generation - and
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By the end of this century, CO2 levels could reach a level not seen
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The work is going well, but it looks like it might be the end of the world.)
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generating enough heat to, in effect, broil the surface of the planet.
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vaccinated every single condor - today there about four hundred
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It doesn't much matter whether people care or don't care. What matters is that people change the world.
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An amount that's been increasing by as much as six percent annually.
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The 'incredible frog hotel' - really a local bed and breakfast - ... the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.
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some 365 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere.
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This thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don't see land.
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stored inside of them, in frigid clouds of nitrogen, are cell lines representing nearly a thousand species.
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Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.
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Since the Antarctic palms of the Eocene, some fifty million years ago.
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If there's been epidemic extinction and ecospace opens up, rats may be best placed to take advantage of that.
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and handjobs on crows.
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Her ruddy brown skin had the texture of pebbled linoleum.
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Suci, a Sumatran rhino, lives at the Cincinnati Zoo,
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[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.
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The first view I got of Suci was her prodigious backside.
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(One of Crutzen's fellow Nobelists reportedly came home from his lab one night and told his wife,
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His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.
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Creep, clobber, squawk. Repeat.
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At the heart of Darwin's theory,
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Recent estimates suggest there are at least two million tropical insect species and perhaps as many as seven million.
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Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.
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We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.
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He called it a ptero-dactyle, meaning 'wing-fingered.
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No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
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Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.
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Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed,
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The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species.
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It was titled "Helping a Species Go Extinct.
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Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined by fifty percent just in the last thirty years.
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As with any young species, this one's position is precarious.
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(Female African clawed frogs, when injected with the urine of a pregnant woman, lay eggs within a few hours.)
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is "the denial of humanity's special status.
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A hundred years ago, in Africa, the population of black rhinos approached a million;
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Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as "substantial biodiversity losses" that occur rapidly and are "global in extent.
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Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.
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Armadillos that, in some cases, grew to be as large as Fiat 500s.
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A single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.
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Once unloaded, everything has to be lugged through
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On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.
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Durrant stopped off at a commissary of sorts to pick up a selection of his favorite snacks.
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Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.
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After the initial heat pulse, the world experienced a multiseason "impact winter.
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Extinction rates soar, and the texture of life changes.
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
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By a pair of herpetologists. It was titled Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction?
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Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval.
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have become even more sought-after as a high-end party "drug"; at clubs in southeast Asia,
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Number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped to perhaps half of what it was fifty years ago,
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, shows an angry-looking tyrannosaurus reacting with horror to the impact.)
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(Rhino horns, which are made of keratin,
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Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen. - JORGE LUIS BORGES
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The history of life thus consists of 'long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.
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Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
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higher than at any other point in the last eight hundred thousand years.
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The birds do not like this camera," Sveinsson said. "So they fly over it and shit on it.
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powdered horn is snorted like cocaine.)
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we're willing to perform ultrasounds on rhinos
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Such is the pain the loss of a single species causes
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Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.
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A webcam that Iceland's environmental agency had set up.
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This is the Mona Lisa of paleontology.
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.
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On our way over to see the bird,
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Basically, if you were a triceratops in Alberta, you had about two minutes before you got vaporized is how one geologist put it to me.
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at the time of my visit he still had failed to
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It's owing to Roth and the handful of others like her who know
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The windowless room where the po'ouli cells are kept alive - sort of - is called the Frozen Zoo.
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within the next fifty years or so "all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to dissolve.
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(The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")
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How to perform an ultrasound with one arm up a rhino's rectum.
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