Joel Sternfeld

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

American Photographer

Cameron Russell

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

American Model

Lynn Margulis

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

American Scientist

Thomas Huxley

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

English Scientist

Frans Lanting

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

Dutch Photographer

John Foster Dulles

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.

American Public Servant

Gail Bradbrook

Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding politicians to account.

British Activist

Lester B. Pearson

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Canadian Politician

T. S. Eliot

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

American Poet

Paul Craig Roberts

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

American Economist

Used when discussing worldwide species loss, often in environmental science or conservation contexts.

Global Perspective

May evoke emotions as it relates to the permanent loss of animal species.

Emotionally Charged

Often used in conversation or media discussing conservation efforts and endangered species.

Conservation Talks

Referring to the loss of traditions, languages, or practices unique to specific human cultures.

Cultural Significance

Can denote the end of historical eras or the disappearance of antiquated practices.

Historical Context

In science, refers precisely to the weakening of light or sound in a medium.

Scientific Specificity

Typically used in technical and scientific discussions, not in everyday language.

Technical Vocabulary

Describes the decline of a learned response or behavior in psychology and behavioral sciences.

Behavior Change

Relevant in therapeutic settings aiming to reduce fears or unwanted behaviors.

Therapeutic Relevance

 The ranges of stuff -- the red line is the mass extinction. But we've got survivors and things that get through, and it turns out the things that get through preferentially are cold bloods. Warm-blooded animals take a huge hit at this time. The survivors that do get through produce this world of crocodile-like creatures.

Earth's mass extinctions...

 occur too quickly for most living creatures to adapt, causing thousands of species to die off in a geological instant. We call this a mass extinction event, and although such events may be rare, paleontologists have been able to identify several of them

When will the next mass...

 and was believed to have died out during the same mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. To biologists and paleontologists, this creature was a very old and fascinating but entirely extinct fish, forever fossilized.

The coelacanth: A living...

 evolution won't be the answer. Instead, many of those species will have to rely on us to help them survive a changing world or face extinction. The good news is we already have the tools. Across the planet, we're making on-the-ground decisions

Can wildlife adapt to...

 the other plants and animals that rely on them are also in danger invasive species are now the number one threat to Australia's native wildlife they have already contributed to the extinction of more than a hundred indigenous species

Nature's Oddest Looking...

 our stories ways of understanding for my culture affect the way I lead I was taught a worldview without a living language my tribes language like many indigenous languages was brought to the point of extinction by colonialism

Language is the building...

 leather basil and the booze of extinction and nobody cares that peaked my interest len took the leatherback's future into his own hands he began patrolling the beach at night to protect the turtles a brave thing to do

Sir David Attenborough...

 percent of species could be a threat of extinction solely due to climate change this isn't just about losing wonders of nature the loss of even the smallest organisms destabilizes the world's ecosystems

When The World Gets 1℃...

 devours its weaker brothers and sister. Some sharks are at risk of extinction. Every year an estimated 100 million sharks are killed worldwide, in large part for the shark fin trade.

Sharks 101 PIPE National...

 There's an organism that changed the world. It caused both the first mass extinction in Earth's history and also paved the way for complex life. How?

Extinction