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Kaytlynne Gentry, staff writer The latest PVCC One Book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert, a journalist and environmentalist, starts out focusing on amphibians and their introduction to a bacteria called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidisthe (BD) and how it was introduced/spread by humans. In chapter two, the key theme is that earlier scientists did […]
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Deadra Miller, online editor On Oct. 15, student activist Kibiriti Majuto gave a speech at the One Book event on Racing Extinction: Youth Movement for Climate Justice. Majuto is not just a student but an activist for Virginia-based organizations such as Virginia Student Environmental Coalition and others. Majuto has been in touch with different teenagers […]
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Bryn Dotson, assistant editor After the dinosaurs went extinct, scientists held a devastating asteroid responsible. This catastrophic event is known as the “fifth extinction.” It is estimated by scientists between 150-200 species of plants, insects, and mammals become extinct every day. Now, humans are the asteroid. Elizabeth Kolbert, an environmental journalist and author of this […]
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