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EN-6. The main crisis of biodiversity
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Bruno David comes back to the main biodiversity crisis. He takes an inventory of the crisis for hundreds of million years and he discusses their potential factors of origin : oxygenation of the marine environment, climate, volcanism, meteorites. To finish, he evokes the current situation and the risk of a sixth extinction crisis of biodiversity.
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