How to Survive a Climate Apocalypse

Which species will survive the current extinction crisis and which won’t?

By Avery Hurt
Jun 25, 2021 5:00 PM
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There’s nothing new about extinction. Species come and species go, and they always have. What’s different this time is the cause and pace of that change. Thanks to human activities, species are going extinct an estimated 1,000 times faster than the natural background rate. Earth is losing species so fast that many scientists believe we’re in the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction event. Even so, some species will survive — some may even thrive. But which species are most likely to populate this strange new world?

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