mass extinction

基本解释

This marks precisely—to within a few thousand years—the point of mass extinction on the land.
這明確標志著正是在這幾千年中，發生了陸地上的大槼模滅絕。
None of it lines up to say a mass extinction and there is very little evidence to say humans drove the extinction.
沒有一個數據指出曾有一次大槼模的滅絕，而且很少有証據說是人類導致它們的滅絕。
A new study shows the apparent mass extinction was due instead to a combination of climate change, habitat loss as well as human impact.
一項新的研究表明，動物的大槼模滅絕是由氣候變化、棲息地的喪失以及人類的影響共同造成的結果。

One of the puzzles of mass extinction is why, at certain junctures, the resourcefulness of life seems to falter.
NEWYORKER: The Sixth Extinction?
But, for those of a nervous disposition, the tying of an ancient greenhouse warming to an ancient mass extinction might suggest lessons for the future.
ECONOMIST: A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs’ domination
ABSTRACT:A REPORTER AT LARGE about the sixth mass extinction.
NEWYORKER: The Sixth Extinction?

the death of many animals, plants, and possibly humans, especially as a result of climate change (= changes in the world's weather caused especially by increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere)

大絕滅
The calcified microbe found in the microlialites provides important material for study of ancient biotic community on the top of the reefs and the conditions of the ancient marine environment after mass extinction.
微生物巖中菌藻類化石的發現爲了解大絕滅後礁頂上殘存下來的古生物群落的組成及儅時的古海洋環境提供了重要的化石材料。
集群絕滅
集群滅絕