A European insect, carrying a European fungus, has lately caused a mass dying of the American beech tree.
Mass death and mass dying seem no barrier to moral envy, as we might recall if we remember the Greatest Generation mania of the nineties.
It is we, Homo sapiens, who will join the myriad other species disappearing in this mass dying, unless we radically change our relationship with nature.
He found a common threshold that most of the 31 past carbon cycle disruptions seemed to stay under those didn't provoke catastrophe and mass dying.
A clear example of this is colony collapse disorder, the name given to the ongoing mass die off of our pollinators, primarily bees, but butterflies and other insects as well.
LOS ANGELES — Bingham Ray, a colorful indie-film executive who helped steer art-house movies like "Bowling for Columbine" and "Hotel Rwanda" to the masses, died on Monday in a hospice in Provo, Utah.
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple and the man credited with bringing both personal computers and advanced mobile electronics to the masses, died on October 5, 2011.
This study reported that elderly patients with small renal masses die from causes other than renal cancer, the most common being cardiovascular.
Then there is a mass die-off.
The Mongolian gazelle had a mass die-off in the 1980s, for instance.
