The Sixth Extinction?
Elizabeth Kolbert on the possible mass extinction of frogs: These amphibians have been around since before there were dinosaurs. But that could soon change.
Karen Lips couldn't figure out why the frogs kept dying. She sent corpses to pathologists who were also baffled. Whatever was killing them moved like a wave across Panama. By 2006 it hit El Valle. A creek once nicknamed Thousand Frog Stream went silent. The sixth extinction was underway.