Impacts Earth has had more major mass extinctions than we realized All these periods of sudden, drastic species loss share patterns. That has worrying implications for the climate-driven losses we’re seeing now.
Newsletter Many people want to set aside half of Earth as nature A new survey of 12,000 adults in 12 countries revealed overwhelming support for conservation, as well as knowledge gaps in subjects like extinction rates.
Impacts www.nationalgeographic.com What we lose when animals go extinct Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans.