http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33209548

“The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, aSTUDY by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties.

“TheREPORT, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.

“The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year.

“One of the new study‘s authors said: “We are nowENTERING the sixth great mass extinction event.”

“The last such event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out, in all likelihood by a large meteor hitting Earth.”

Grim.