News Headline
Could biodiversity destruction lead to a global tipping point?
Source
Guardian (UK)
Publication Date
2018-01-15
Just over 250 million years ago, the planet suffered what may be described as its greatest holocaust: ninety-six percent of marine genera (plural of genus) and seventy percent of land vertebrate vanished for good. Even insects suffered a mass extinction – the only time before or since. Entire classes of animals – like trilobites – went out like a match in the wind.