Notice the near absence of articles about ocean pollution. Such studies are rarely done. And when they are they are mis-aimed. As an example, the very few studies done on ocean pollution from the Fukushim nuclear meltdown disaster were aimed at quantifying the non-persistent Cesium-137 and ignored the more persistent discharges such as plutonium isotopes, some of which have a half-life in the many thousands of years. So far as I'm aware only one study was published showing that the pollution was nearing the Oregon/California Pacific coast. (that ended the publication of such studies.) Fortunately, Greenpeace has taken up the issue of ocean pollution with plastics. But so far as I'm aware no one has taken up the issue of other toxic pollutants. And we've had centuries of using our rivers and oceans to dispose of toxic substances.
(Review hint: you can fix many instances of disappeared web sites using the Web Archives Wayback Machine.)
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Climate change and 2026: https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.htmlhttps://www.ipcc.ch/ (report on 1.5° increased temperature vs. 2°); see also https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45775309.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050: https://people.com/human-interest/climate-change-report-may/
https://popularresistance.org/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
Noah Chomsky on climate change and nuclear war threat: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50370.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/earth-wild-animal-population-plummets-60-percent-44-years-181030030643035.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html ("I would estimate the chances are about 49 percent that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.")
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-ipcc-environment-paris-agreement-global-warming-a8573811.html
https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
http://www.thenation.com/article/181621/climate-change-peoples-shock<BR>
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-07/stephen-hawking-earth-will-become-flaming-ball-fire-2600
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/4605229
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5077749/Doomsday-warning-humanity-signed-15-000-scientists.html
On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive? https://web.archive.org/web/20250106210342/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48944.htm
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/planetary-collapse-looms-new-study-shows-more-1200-species-will-almost-certainly
Sperm viability and 5G networking: https://www.globalresearch.ca/5g-cell-phone-technology-dramatic-population-reduction-men-become-sterile/5670565
Mass extinction event: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176506/tomgram%3A_subhankar_banerjee%2C_the_vanishing/.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-methane-time-bomb-and-the-future-of-the-biosphere/5638298
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-moment-of-truth-has-come-what-now-threat-to-life-on-planet-earth-ozone-dying-and-the-deadly-ultraviolet-cosmic-radiation/5637864
Plastics: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution/
World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years', https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622; see also https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife-nature-decline-extinct-paris-climate-agreement-wwf-elephants-rhinos-polar-bears-a8607341.html
Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming, https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/27/insect-decimation-upstages-global-warming/. See also https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems and https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/insect-apocalypse-global-food-chain-faces-major-extinction-event-and-scientists. But see https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-04/cockroach-wars-are-upon-us-ancient-pests-starting-power-through-common-insecticides.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hothouse-earth-demise-of-the-planetary-life-support-system/5649902
https://www.globalresearch.ca/life-on-earth-is-dying-thousands-of-species-cease-to-exist/5561829
Human Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50050.htm.
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-changes-looming-mental-health-crisis/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1002422/Apocalypse-2040-MIT-computer-model-civilisation-world-end-Club-of-Rome
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/speedy-flip-in-earths-magnetic-field-could-cause-trillions-in-damage-scientists-warn/news-story/256a3985599eb9d0adbe7c698102bfba
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-31/earths-big-freeze-looms-sun-remains-devoid-sunspots-most-2018
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/11/01/earths-oceans-have-absorbed-60-percent-more-heat-year-previously-thought
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 (risk of an uninhabitable planet is not simply a far off possibility that might be triggered at several degrees of temperature rise in a more distant future — it could be triggered imminently; and it is possible that it may already have been triggered at the current level of an approximate 1C temperature rise above the pre-industrial average).
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/june/a-million-threatened-species--thirteen-questions-and-answers.html
Scientific model supported by UK Government Taskforce flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040, https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/uk-government-backed-scientific-model-flags-risk-of-civilisation-s-collapse-by-2040-4d121e455997.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/end-human-civlisation-war-empire-racism-anthropocene/260057/
https://popularresistance.org/us-bird-numbers-drop-by-nearly-three-billion-in-48-years/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/04/24/mechanical-pollinator-helps-israeli-farmers-cope-with-declining-bee-population/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/24/silent-spring-already-here-global-study-shows-nearly-25-drop-insect-population-over
Nature crisis: 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought: <https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52399373>
Starving grasshoppers? How rising carbon dioxide levels may promote an ‘insect apocalypse': https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/starving-grasshoppers-how-rising-carbon-dioxide-levels-may-promote-insect-apocalypse
The Race of Our Lives Revisited: https://web.archive.org/web/20181019170246/https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/asset-allocation/the-race-of-our-lives-revisited.pdf
A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/05/life-heat-near-unlivable-more-3-billion-people-just-decades-climate-report-warns
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/the-relative-abundance-of-bumblebees-in-north-america-is-estimated-to-have-crashed-by-97-percent/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/10/nature-unraveling-new-wwf-report-reveals-alarming-68-plummet-wildlife-populations
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-report-links-mass-extinction-of-animals-to-human-activity/271437/
New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/30/new-global-report-warns-nearly-40-plants-risk-extinction
Virtually all emperor penguins doomed for extinction by 2100 as climate change looms, study finds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/04/emperor-penguins-climate-antarctica/
