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Life is incredibly resilient, and simple organisms have been found everywhere from Antarctica to the bottom of mines; even the so-called Dead Sea supports ‘salt-loving’ haloarchaea microorganisms. There is one part of the world where nothing thrives, however: the Atacama Desert in Chile.
A species is said to be extinct when it no longer lives anywhere on the planet. Extinction occurs when the last members of a species die because they cannot acquire the food, water, shelter, and/or space necessary to survive.
Sep 12, 2019 · The company plans to land on the moon in 2021: Mr Hakamada predicts there will be a community of at least 1,000 people living and working there by 2040. Mining the moon is also a crucial part of...
Jul 12, 2024 · Extinction is a fact of life. Of all the species that have ever evolved on our planet, the overwhelming majority no longer exist.
- Riley Black
Mar 21, 2023 · The result would be a global famine that might kill more than five billion people in just two years, depending on the size and number of detonations.
Dec 12, 2019 · As a result, humans have directly altered at least 70% of Earth's land, mainly for growing plants and keeping animals. These activities necessitate deforestation, the degradation of land, loss of biodiversity and pollution, and they have the biggest impacts on land and freshwater ecosystems.
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In 1989 the journalist Bill McKibben published a book entitled The End of Nature, in which he argued that the prospect of global climate change as a result of unintentional human manipulation of the atmosphere means that nature as we once knew it no longer exists.
