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 Stories About: biodiversity AND extinction AND habitat loss
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Humans spur worst extinctions since dinosaurs
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Chris Schults |
21 Mar 2006 |
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| Humans are responsible for the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and must make unprecedented extra efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a U.N. report said on Monday.Habitats ranging from coral reefs to tropical rainforests face mounting threats, the Secretariat of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity said in the report, issued at the start of a March 20-31 U.N. meeting in Curitiba, Brazil.'In effect, we are currently responsible for th ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, extinction, habitat loss (all these topics) |
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