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Are mass extinctions inevitable? / Noah Berlatsky, book editor. - Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2012. - 114 p. ; 24 cm. - At issue . - At issue. Environment. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-106) and index.

Numerous signs point to mass extinctions / Tracy V. Wilson -- Species extinction rates are overestimated / Stuart Wolpert -- Study : 6th mass extinction looms but preventable, study says / Stephanie Pappas -- Mass plant extinctions show the threats from human exploitation / Juliette Jowit -- Human consumption of plants and animals can lead to conservation / Kim Severson -- Humans have created conditions that cause amphibian extinctions / NZFROG -- A fungal disease is one of the main threats causing amphibian extinctions / Amphibian Ark -- Global warming may force polar bears into extinction / Michael McCarthy -- Polar bears : today's canaries in the coal mine? / Bjorn Lomborg -- Give a bee a home / Hazel Sillver -- Bee extinctions, and a resulting catastrophe, may be inevitable / Bill Schutt -- Human beings will be extinct within one hundred years / The Daily Star -- It is extremely unlikely human beings will become extinct / Tobin Lopes, et al.

ISBN: 9780737755480 (hardcover) 0737755482 (hardcover) 9780737755497 (pbk.) 0737755490 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2011036997

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mass extinctions.

LC Class. No.: QE721.2 E97 / A74 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 576.8/4