We Are in the Middle of a Sixth Mass Extinction

BY PEYTON DULAY People have heard the stories about dinosaurs and how they went extinct, but what many don’t know is that there is a sixth mass extinction already happening—right now. The history of the Earth is punctuated by five major periods of extinction, all caused by either intense ice ages, natural changes in the climate, volcanoes, or the infamous meteorite. Now, over the last 12,000 years, a sixth period of biodiversity die-off known as the Holocene Extinction has begun, and the main ca

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