How Humans Can Try To Prevent 6th Mass Extinction
Many scientists assert that humans are causing a new wave of extinction. A few suggestions are made for ways to avoid this crisis.
President Obama today announced the designation of three new national monuments. The Berryessa Snow Mountain in Calif., the Waco Mammoth in Texas, and the Basin and Range in Nev., will now all be protected as historic sites.
Somewhere outside Antioch, California, which is about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, there lies a patch of wildflowers so rare that botanists aren't disclosing their location, for fear of tourists or vandals. The wildflowers, known as Mount Diablo buckwheat, or, by their Latin name, as Eriogonum truncatum, were thought to be extinct for nearly seven decades, until a small patch of them were found in California in 2005.
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