Last week, the United Nations released a biodiversity report warning that one million species are at risk for extinction in the coming decades, including more than 40% of amphibian species, nearly 33% of reef-forming corals, and more than a third of all marine mammals. Today on the show, we explore the magnitude of the report’s […]
Why Some Species Are More Likely To Go Extinct
The earth has experienced five mass extinctions since life first formed on this planet four billion years ago, with the result that 99.99 percent of every species the earth has ever seen is now extinct. Most scientists agree that we live now in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event, one potentially caused by […]
A Bird’s Eye View of Species Extinction
Scientists currently estimate that more than 99 percent of species that have ever lived have already gone extinct. We are part of those rare few species that get to keep holding on to life for a bit longer, but that might not be the case much longer because some scientists think we may be heading […]
How U.S. Supermarkets Fail to Reduce Food Waste
The volume of food we all throw away is truly staggering. Some 40% of the food produced in the U.S. never gets eaten. While households can do more to reuse or compost food before it ends up in the landfill, you have to look a little further along the supply chain to find the real […]
