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Jan 2023
25m 43s

Consider the Burying Beetle. (Or Else.)

The New York Times
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The current level of biodiversity loss is extraordinary in human history: The global rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years. At the end of 2022, countries around the world came together in Montreal for an agreement akin to the Paris climate accord to tackle the biodiversity cr ... Show More
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