Haaretz: Planet Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction event comparable in scale to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a landmark study by an international group of scientists has concluded. It would be the sixth major extinction event in the history of the planet - but this time, the cause is man, and there's precious little time to reverse the trend.
Part is the human predilection for hunting for its own sake, but the greater part is man-made climate change.
The researchers...