On New Year’s day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won’t be the last.
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Sources:
George the snail:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/08/george-the-snail-tree-snail-hawaiian-islands-biodiversity
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/science/snail-dead-george-species.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315678140_Measuring_the_Sixth_Extinction_what_do_mollusks_tell_us
Antarctic animals:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00507/full
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinning-arctic-ice-allows-plankton-bloom/
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