mass extinction Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:31:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Planet on the Brink of a Dinosaur-Scale Mass Extinction https://www.greenoptimistic.com/planet-brink-dinosaur-scale-mass-extinction-20140601/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/planet-brink-dinosaur-scale-mass-extinction-20140601/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:31:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47806 According to experts, we’re speeding up the natural rate of extinction of plant and animal species by up to 10,000 times. That’s us, humanity, you and me. Researchers at Duke University discovered that the planet may be on the verge of a dinosaur-scale mass extinction. The research team concluded that the pre-human extinction rate was […]

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