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More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
A May 2016 study based on scaling laws estimated that 1 trillion species (overwhelmingly microbes) are on Earth currently with only one-thousandth of one percent described, [28] [29] though this has been controversial and a 2019 study of varied environmental samples of 16S ribosomal RNA estimated that there exist 0.8-1.6 million species of ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species. [1]
Currently, there are no roads within or leading into the refuge, but there are a few Native settlements scattered within. On the northern edge of the refuge is the Inupiat village of Kaktovik (population 258) [ 17 ] and on the southern boundary the Gwich'in settlement of Arctic Village (population 152). [ 17 ]
Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. ... anticipate many more [very warm] years,” he said, while truly Arctic conditions ...
Life on Our Planet is an American television nature documentary series released on Netflix and produced by Amblin Television and Silverback Films.Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the series focuses on the evolutionary history of complex life on Earth.
His memoir, The Only Kayak (a PEN USA Western Book Award finalist), [8] describes that first summer in Alaska. Heacox has authored 17 books, including five published by National Geographic . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] His novel, Jimmy Bluefeather (2015), was the first work of fiction in over 20 years to win the National Outdoor Book Award .
Written while his son was recovering from a serious accident, Earth in the Balance became the first book written by a sitting U.S. Senator to make the New York Times bestseller list since John F. Kennedy's 1956 Profiles in Courage. [1] In 1993, Earth in the Balance was released in paperback and audiobook format on audio cassette tape.