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Mass animal die-offs are on the rise, killing billions and raising questions

We’re not talking about a few dead fish littering your local beach. Mass die-offs are individualevents that kill at least a billion animals, wipe out over 90 percent of a population, or destroy 700 million tons—the equivalent weight of roughly 1,900 Empire State Buildings—worth of animals. Source

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