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Mass Extinction Events

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Path to Extinctions

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Radio

Species Extinction Rate Speeding Up
Dan Olson, Minnesota Public Radio
February 1, 2005

Papers

Pinpointing and Preventing Imminent Extinctions
npas.org

Ecosystem Consequences of Bird Declines
Center for Conservation Biology,  Stanford University
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Links

• American Museum of Natural History Press Release on Current Mass Extinction
• Fastest Mass Extinction in Earth's History (Worldwatch Report)
• SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD FACES MASS EXTINCTION (CNN-- 2002)
• Earth Faces Sixth Mass Extinction (New Scientist-- 2004)
• THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Richard Leakey
• The Sixth Extinction (National Geographic Magazine)
• The Sixth Extinction (American Museum of Natural History)
• Wake-Up Call on Extinction Wave (British Royal Society-- 2003)
• GLOBAL EXTINCTION CRISIS CONFIRMED-- 2000 IUCN Red List Released
• Mass Extinction Pace Quickening: Red List 2000 Released (N.Y. Times)
• Headlong Drive to Mass Extinction-- 2002 Red List Released (Toronto Globe and Mail)
• 12,000 Threatened Species: "Only Scratching the Surface"-- 2003 Red List Released (U.K. Guardian)
• 15,589 Threatened Species: "Greatly Underestimates True Number"-- 2004 Red List Released (MSNBC)
• GLOBAL WARMING THREATENS EXTINCTION OF ONE MILLION SPECIES (Nature-- 2004)
• By 2050 Global Warming Will Doom A Million Species (National Geographic-- 2004)
• BRITISH STUDY CONFIRMS WORLDWIDE MASS EXTINCTION (Science-- 2004)
• Two Thirds of World's Species May Be Threatened (EurekAlert/AAAS-- 2005)
• 1998 Comprehensive Data on Plant Extinction Rate (N.Y. Times)
• 1996 Comprehensive Data on Animal Extinction Rate (IUCN)
• World's Biodiversity Becoming Extinct (International Botanical Congress)
• Scientists Warn of Mass Extinction (Environmental News Network)
• CNN Special Report on Mass Extinction
• Human Impact Triggers Massive Extinctions (Environment News Service)
• Unprecedented Extinction Rate (World Conservation Union)
• The Current Mass Extinction (Scientific American)
• Wave of Extinctions Sweeping the Planet (United Nations)
• Biodiversity Under Siege (Environmental News Network)
• World Facing Greatest Extinction Risk Since Dinosaurs Disappeared (IUCN)
• The Current Mass Extinction (PBS)
• Mammals, Fish, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles Suffering Major Declines (Worldwatch)
• ONE QUARTER OF MAMMALS FACE EXTINCTION WITHIN 30 YEARS (United Nations-- BBC-- 2002)
• Global Picture of Death, Damage and Destruction (United Nations)
• Is Humanity Suicidal? by E.O. Wilson, Harvard University
• The Future of Life, E.O. Wilson, Harvard University
• Can Humans and Nature Coexist? (USA Today)
• The Weeds Shall Inherit the Earth, David Quammen (U.K. Independent)
• Life in the Balance, by Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History
• The Sixth Extinction, by Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History
• World Losing Battle Against Extinctions, Peter Raven, Washington University (BBC)
• The Biodiversity Crisis, Peter Raven, Washington University
• Earth in the Balance, Peter Raven, Washington University
• The Future of Life, E.O. Wilson [RealAudio]
• Are We Facing Mass Extinction? Peter Raven [RealAudio]
• End of the Wild, Stephen M. Meyer, MIT
• Mass Extinction Foreseen, Michael Soule, U.C. Santa Cruz
• Biotic Holocaust, Norman Myers, Oxford University
• A Winnowing for Tomorrow's World, Norman Myers, Oxford University
• Planet Faces Mass Extinction, Richard Leakey
• Earth On Edge, Michael Novacek, American Museum of Natural History
• Repeating History at Our Peril, by David Suzuki, University of British Columbia
• Ecologists Predict Massive Extinction (University of Tennessee)
• The Dawn of a New Mesozoic Era (Wired News)
• Losing Strands in the Web of Life (Worldwatch Institute)
• Extinctions Past and Present (World Book)
• The Brink of the Homogocene (U.S. National Academy of Sciences)
• Rapid Species Loss a Global Danger (Science)
• A Field Guide to the Sixth Extinction (N.Y. Times)
• The Last of Their Kind (E/Environmental Magazine)
• Local Populations Going Extinct (Stanford University)
• Genetic Diversity Within Single Species As Crucial as Species Diversity (National Geographic)
• Study Jolts Views on Recovery from Extinctions (N.Y. Times)
• Recovery From Extinction Will Take Ten Million Years (ABC News)
• Global Warming May Cause Extinction of 95% of Species (The Scotsman-- 2003)
• Global Warming Report Predicts Doom For Many Species (N.Y. Times)
• Global Warming May Make Mass Extinction Unavoidable (Univ. of Arizona)
• Global Warming Threatens Third of World Habitat (Reuters)
• Extinctions, Not Random, Threaten Thousands of Species (UniSci)
• Hunting To Extinction (U.S. News and World Report)
• What Will We Lose As More Species Vanish? (N.Y. Times)
• Human Alteration of Environment has Triggered Sixth Major Extinction (Nature)
• Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems (Science)
• Humans Now Using 40% Of All Resources Available For Life On Earth (U.K. Guardian)
• Ecological Overshoot: Humans Exceeding Earth's Capacity (U.S. National Academy of Sciences)
• Smaller Households Lead to Vanishing Biodiversity (Nature)
• World's Ecosystems on Verge of Sudden Collapse (Nature)
• The Current Biodiversity Extinction Event (U.S. National Academy of Sciences)
• The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution (U.S. National Academy of Sciences)
• Biodiversity: Vanishing Before Our Eyes (Time Magazine)
• Time Nearly Up For Human Race (U.K. Guardian)
• Humans Moving Closer To Extinction, Study Says (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Time Running Out For the Environment (Johns Hopkins Population InformationProgram)
• British Environment Minister: Humans Killing Planet (U.K. Guardian)
• Needed-- Two More Planets (WWF)
• Nature's Crown Jewels Face Ruin (U.K. Guardian)
• Extinction Crisis Even Worse Than Previously Thought (Science)
• Governments Sound Biodiversity Alarm (Convention on Biological Diversity)
• UN Paints Grim Global Picture (United Nations Environment Program--Outlook 2000)
• Earth on Edge of a Precipice: United Nations 2001 Population Report
• Earth Will Expire By 2050 (World Wildlife Fund)
• 2002 Biodiversity Summit a Complete Failure (U.K. Guardian)
• Condition Critical: U.N. Assessment of Earth's Ecosystems (Time)
• The Fraying Web of Life (United Nations)
• A History of Awareness of the Current Mass Extinction (Wild Earth Magazine)
• Why Are We Not Astonished? Ed Ayres (Worldwatch)

For more information on the extinction crisis, visit massextinction.net.