{"id":28919,"date":"2024-07-15T15:54:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=28919"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T13:56:06","slug":"scientists-warn-of-sixth-mass-extinction-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/07\/15\/scientists-warn-of-sixth-mass-extinction-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;We are close to the sixth mass extinction&quot;: scientists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h-inondazioni-siccita-e-incendi-causati-dai-cambiamenti-climatici-potrebbero-causare-gli-stessi-danni-di-un-asteroide-o-di-una-massiccia-eruzione-vulcanica-ecco-cosa-dicono-gli-esperti\">Floods, droughts and fires caused by climate change could cause as much damage as an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption. Here&#039;s what the experts say. The most famous mass extinction in Earth&#039;s history occurred 66 million years ago, when a gigantic asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and many other living species. And while it was a major event, wiping out about 76 percent of the world&#039;s species, there have been two more devastating apocalypses in the 4.5 billion years of our planet&#039;s history, for a total of five. MailOnline asked scientists what could cause the sixth mass extinction and when, if this scenario is already underway, it could happen. (<em>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passioneastronomia.it\/vicini-alla-sesta-estinzione-di-massa-lallarme-degli-scienziati-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">passionastronomia.it<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floods, droughts and fires caused by climate change could cause as much damage as an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption. Here&#039;s what experts say. The most famous mass extinction in Earth&#039;s history occurred 66 million years ago, when a gigantic asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and many other living species. And while it was a significant event, it wiped out about 76 percent of the world&#039;s species over a period of 4.5 million years.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}