'Extinction Debt': Reaping What We've Bulldozed
<div class='node-body'><p>Humanity's debt collectors may be coming soon to collect on the 'extinction debt' owed due to massive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, with dozens of species slated for extinction mere decades from now.</p>
<p>As a group of scientists explain in a new study in <em>Science</em>, 80% of extinctions due to historical habitat loss in the Brazilian Amazon are yet to come.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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