Tag: Stuart Pimm

• Saturday, June 20th 2015 - 08:47 UTC

  Earth in new period of extinction: vertebrates, including humans, among first casualties

  

  The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties. The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.