Land-use change has caused a decrease in global biodiversity in the 20th century. Read more here. A recent study shows that land-use change alone has caused a 2% to 11% decrease in global biodiversity throughout the twentieth century.
According to a UK study, a series of mass extinctions that occurred over 300 million years ago may have been brought on by the evolution of tree roots.
The widely accepted hypothesis of how the dinosaurs perished 66 million years ago involves a violent impact between Earth and a meteorite, followed by a global winter during which the atmosphere was clogged by dust and debris.
Climate change has caused species to shift between the 'better' and 'worse' areas of their climatic niches, according to an analysis of long-term monitoring data for over 1,500 species in Finland. These impacts were most severe at higher latitudes