Word: extinctionism
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Because more lifeforms than ever before are threatened by extinction, scientists should conduct the first-ever worldwide survey of various species, Baird Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson said in a Science Center speech last night.
Striding majestically across the savanna, the African elephant is an unmistakable symbol of power and strength. As recently as the 1970s, its numbers were so great that some conservationists worried about overpopulation. Now the elephant is involved in a desperate struggle to survive, and the reason for its peril is...
An orgy of poaching driven by record prices for ivory threatens the animals with extinction. -- An oil spill poses the first major peril to the pristine Antarctic.
Stroessner, who provided asylum for some of the most reviled figures in modern times, such as Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele and Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, is expected to live out his exile, possibly in Chile. There he would be the guest of Augusto Pinochet, now the very...
-- During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being...