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the Clarion island wren (Troglodytes tanneri; image credit: Claudio Contreras Koob)
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Humans are causing a mass extinction. And humans can stop it...Earth is now in the middle of a mass extinction, the sixth one in the planet’s history, according to scientists. And now a new study reports that species are going extinct hundreds or thousands of times faster than the expected rate. The researchers also found that one extinction can cause ripple effects throughout an ecosystem, leaving other species vulnerable to the same fate. 

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