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How is human overpopulation causing animal extinction?

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Human Population Growth and extinction We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimates that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction. read more

Species go extinct all the time, even without asteroid impacts or volcanoes. But estimates of the average rate of extinction throughout the history of the Earth vary widely. And that makes it difficult to determine how much human activities have ramped up the rate at which animals are vanishing. read more

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