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The sixth extinction

Insects are less efficient pollinators than bees, but they compensate for this disadvantage by visiting each flower more frequently. Photo: shutterstock

Environment for insects and vice versa

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Biodiversity in a series of stamps issued by Mexico

Biodiversity is in danger. What can be done to stop the extinction happening?

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A well-preserved oak detail on display at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. Mike Pennington / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Man caused the extinction of the northern equivalent of the penguins

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A protest sign of the "Extinction Rebellion" movement. Photo: shutterstock

A deadly combination: the climate crisis and human species extinction

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Skull of a Neanderthal who was hit in the head. Evidence of ancient violence. Photo: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Were other human species the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?

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Parrots in the rainforest simulation at the San Francisco Zoo. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Biodiversity in crisis

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"How did it happen that the flowering plants, which evolved the latest from an evolutionary point of view, make up 90% of all land plant species we know today?" Photo: Bernard DUPONT.

Why did the flowering plants suddenly take over the earth a short geological time ago?

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The rainforest has contributed to population declines of many animals, including the Burnan gibbon, known for its vocalizations. (Photo: Gerardo Ceballos, Stefanord University

The opening signal for the mass extinction - every year two sand dunes become extinct

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Endangered animals - the polar bear and the snow leopard. FROM PIXABAY.COM

Global warming as a "joke"

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The mammoths were exterminated by man. Illustration: From Jumpstory.com

Why are the big ones extinct?

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