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·                                 Human activities have caused some 500 bird species worldwide to go extinct over the past five millennia. The predominant cause of species loss is habitat destruction.

·                                 Polar bears and hippos have joined the ranks of species threatened with extinction from climate change, unregulated hunting and other man-made dangers. More than 16,000 species of animals and plants are at risk of disappearing.

·                                 Rainforests cover only 7% of the earth's land surface, but they contain more than half of the species on earth.

·                                 Lightning flickers from the clouds to the ground somewhere in the United States 25 million times each year. An average of 67 people is killed by this lightning each year.

·                                 An oak tree produces about 50,000 acorns in a good season. Only a handful actually survive in just the right conditions to grow into trees.

·                                 Six of the 10 warmest years on record for the contiguous U.S. have occurred since 1998, part of a three decade period in which mean temperatures for the contiguous U.S. have risen at a rate near 0.6°F per decade.

·                                 Over the course of 50 years, a single tree can generate $31,250 of oxygen, provide $62,000 worth of air pollution control, recycle $37,500 worth of water, and control $31,500 worth of soil erosion.

·                                 The Amazon River basin contains 20% of the world's fresh water.

·                                 Approximately 100 million people in the U.S. are breathing air that is below the federal air quality standard because of microscopic soot from power plants, diesel-burning trucks, cars and factories.

·                                 Humans take up 83% of the earth's land surface to live on, farm, mine or fish.

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