https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-an-extinction-crisis/

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

A great extinction is under way across most of the planet. From the forests of the Amazon to the suburban hinterlands of America, from the depths of the oceans to Southeast Asia’s mangrove swamps, millions of species are being lost. And as species disappear, the populations of those that remain are also plunging. North America has lost more than a quarter of its birds since 1970.