extinction

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Today’s changing ocean and Arctic ice conditions linked to fossil-fuel-fired climate change are putting this species again at risk of extinction.

From Los Angeles Times

That is more than four times the size of the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

From Science Daily

Skateboarders are trying to pull off their gnarliest trick: saving San Francisco’s most hated monument from extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal

It's a feeling which some experts have begun to echo in our current timeline - with some going even as far as to suggest that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity.

From BBC

I learned that the distillery makes its bourbon from local Jimmy Red corn, which was two cobs away from extinction before High Wire rescued it.

From The Wall Street Journal