Graduate Student Claims Future Mass Extinction Is Inevitable

The good news is humans will survive it. The bad news is little else will. So much for good news, then.Nicholas Matzke, a graduate student from the U of California, Berkeley has just published a paper that concludes 3/4ths of all life on Earth will be extinct within 30 years. Matke arrived at this grim finding after he conducted research that was the result of a 2009 seminar. He then began comparing extinction rates and modern data, which produced quite an Uh-oh moment.(...)Read the rest of

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