How the sixth extinction crisis can be stalled – or stopped The world has entered the sixth extinction crisis with the loss of species having a devastating impact on the biodiversity crucial to human survival The process of extinction can be stopped by building technology, solutions and processes that can help us secure animal DNA and begin to reverse the damage created by humans Assisted breeding, cloning and genome editing and synthetic genomics
Extinction threat from ocean plastic pollution is growing | World . . . Extinction threat “For already threatened species, some of which live in such hotspots, such as monk seals or sperm whales in the Mediterranean, plastic pollution is an additional stress factor pushing these populations towards extinction”, says WWF