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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">David L. Wagner</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">, </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="highwire-citation-author"><span data-delta="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">
Eliza M. Grames</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">, </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="highwire-citation-author"><span data-delta="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">
Matthew L. Forister</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">, </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="highwire-citation-author"><span data-delta="3" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">
May R. Berenbaum</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">, and </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="highwire-citation-author"><span data-delta="4" data-hasqtip="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">David
Stopak</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">,
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">PNAS, January 12, 2021</span><b style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></b><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal;">Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to 7.8 billion. Much of Earth’s
arable lands are already in agriculture, millions of acres of tropical forest are cleared each year, atmospheric CO</span><sub style="box-sizing: border-box; bottom: -0.25em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal;">2</span></sub><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background: white;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> levels
are at their highest concentrations in more than 3 million y, and climates are erratically and steadily changing from pole to pole, triggering unprecedented droughts, fires, and floods across continents. Indeed, most biologists agree that the world has entered
its sixth mass extinction event, the first since the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million y ago, when more than 80% of all species, including the non-avian dinosaurs, perished.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Link to article: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2023989118?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=036ffa0609-briefing-dy-20210114&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-036ffa0609-44375001</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p style=""><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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