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Causes of the Sixth Extinction Extinction date to be confirmed Effect Massive asteroid impact Objects from space crash into the planet all the time, causing varying degrees of damage. If an asteroid the size of a small planet landed on Earth, we would all be wiped out. Huge volcanic eruptions Imagine the damage caused by a single volcano. In a prolonged eruption of multiple volcanoes, lava would cover the ground and the air would fill with deadly gas and s

GO Cause

Future Forecast

Past 1hr Scientists estimate that the current rate of extinction is between 100 and 1,000 times faster than the average rate for Earth. We are living in the Holocene extinction event: the Sixth Extinction. During the last century, between 20,000 and two million species have become extinct. But scientists have observed that the rate of extinction is speeding up, linked almost exclusively t

Past 24hrs The Sixth Extinction

MAPS Earth eventual demise…?

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