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요약:A new UN report about the world's biodiversity found that up to 1 million species face extinction. Here's a breakdown of what could disappear.
The planet in the middle of a mass extinction — the sixth time in Earth's history that a wide swath of species are experiencing a major collapse in their populations.Human activities are to blame: Pollution, farming, and deforestation are destroying natural habitats.According to a new report from the United Nations, up to 1 million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, many within decades. Here's what the world stands to lose if we continue to ruin these species' habitats.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.The climate crisis his hitting Earth's plants and animals with a one, two punch. breakdown has reached dire straits. As oceans heat up and surface temperatures rise (four of the last five years have been the warmest on record for the planet, other consequences of human activity are also altering the planet's natural habitats on an unprecedented scale.Yesterday, the United Nations released a summary of a report from its Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) that assesses the state of our planet's biodiversity. The authors found that between 500,000 and 1 million plant and animals species face extinction, many within decades. The report reiterates that there's just one factor to blame for this troubling trend: us. Pollution, deforestation, and habitat loss due to farming and development have already “severely altered” 75% of all land and 40% of marine environments, it says. “Human actions threaten more species with global extinction now than ever before,” the authors wrote. Read More: Up to 1 million species are facing extinction. Without them, we could run out of food.These alarming findings lend further credence to the notion that we're in the midst of the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history — the sixth time global species have experienced a major collapse in numbers.“Observing these declines in species abundance is sort of like reading obituaries,” Hugh Possingham, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, told Business Insider.Here's what the world stands to lose in the coming decades, according to the UN report.
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