Humans wiped out Two-Thirds of Wildlife in the Last 50 Years
A new study finds that even though humans make up only .01% of the biomass of all living things on earth, we have done a disproportionate amount of destruction to other life forms, Since the dawn of civilization we’ve destroyed 83% of wild mammals and half of all plant species. The study is the first to estimate the...
Surging global ice melt suggests sea level rise predictions are far too conservative
The world’s ice is melting so fast that sea level rise predictions can’t keep up. In the 1990s, the Earth’s ice was melting at a rate of about 760 billion tons per year. That has surged 60 percent to an average of 1.2 trillion tons per year in the 2010s, a study published Monday in …...
