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Floyd McKay

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Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>If the last IPCC report didn't cause you to trade in your coffee sweetener for qualudes, this one surely will: A landmark study by the journal Science, published Thursday, reported that plant and animal species are now disappearing about 10 times faster than scientists originally believed. An AP</p></h2>
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            <p>If the <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">last IPCC report </a>didn't cause you to trade in your coffee sweetener for qualudes, this one surely will: A landmark study by the journal <em>Science</em>, published Thursday, reported that plant and animal species are now disappearing about 10 times faster than scientists originally believed. <a href="http://Species are now disappearing from Earth about 10 times faster than biologists had believed, said study lead author noted biologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University.">An AP article picked up by the Seattle Times</a> today called Stuart Pimm, the lead author of the study, a "noted biologist" at Duke University. "We are on the verge of the sixth extinction," Pimm told AP reporter Seth Borenstein, from his research base in the Dry Tortugas. "Whether we avoid it or not will depend on our actions." — B.A.</p>
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If the last IPCC report didn't cause you to trade in your coffee sweetener for qualudes, this one surely will: A landmark study by the journal Science, published Thursday, reported that plant and animal species are now disappearing about 10 times faster than scientists originally believed. An AP article picked up by the Seattle Times today called Stuart Pimm, the lead author of the study, a "noted biologist" at Duke University. "We are on the verge of the sixth extinction," Pimm told AP reporter Seth Borenstein, from his research base in the Dry Tortugas. "Whether we avoid it or not will depend on our actions." — B.A.

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By Floyd McKay

Floyd J. McKay, professor of journalism emeritus at Western Washington University, was a print and broadcast journalist in Oregon for three decades. He is also a historian and his new book, "Reporting