On November 22 R. Alexander Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Associate Professor of Biology at the George Washington University, wrote a perspective in...

R. Alexander Pyron, wrote a perspective in the Washington Post that had the above title. Annie Dillard wrote, "Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe."(first published 1974)].

Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there is still time to stop it.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/oct/20/the-four-horsemen-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction