On AlterNet: extinction

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We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction: Goodbye Fish and a Whole Lot More

Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 8, 2011.

Paleontologist Peter Ward talks about the threats from global warming, rising population and our own plain stupidity.

The End (of Religion) Is Near, Scientists Say

Louis Ruprecht, Religion Dispatches. April 27, 2011.

Scientists often have a funny way of talking about religion.

It's Not Just the Bees -- Now Scientists Say 25% of All Flowering Species Could Go Extinct

Juliette Jowit, The Guardian. July 7, 2010.

Human activity could spell end for a quarter of all flowering plants, with huge impact on food chain.

8 Things We Love That Climate Change Will Force Us to Kiss Good-Bye

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. December 18, 2009.

We face losing everything from 50,000 species a year to the world's best wines. How to put it all in perspective?

Did Asteroids Really Do in the Dinosaurs?

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Christian Science Monitor. May 21, 2009.

Two new controversial studies are calling are calling that theory into question.

Did Greenhouse Gases Cause the Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction?

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Christian Science Monitor. November 20, 2008.

Scientists now suspect that the earth's greatest mass extinction wasn't caused by an asteroid strike or any other single cataclysmic event.

The Era of Catastrophe? Geologists Name New Era After Human Influence on the Planet

Mike Davis, TomDispatch.com. August 11, 2008.

A striking report from the front lines of science suggests we're officially entering a period in which humanity may simply outrun history itself.

Western Hemisphere Monkeys Likely to Perish in Climate Squeeze

December 31, 1969.

Have We Triggered the Earth\'s 6th Mass Extinction?

Dana Nuccitelli, December 31, 1969.