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Earth's sixth mass extinction is already happening — and it is rapidly accelerating, researchers warned in a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.

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[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago
[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The source I dug up while writing that comment said 10.9 billion, but since these are projections they vary a bit depending on the assumptions that go into them. The important underlying point is that the line eventually goes back down again.

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