'100 years left' Scientists warn of TRIGGER to mass biological event WIPING OUT humans

AFTER 3.5bn years, it's official, the end of the world is finally upon us and leading scientists have claimed its just 100 years away and we're the ones to blame.

Human race destroyed in next 100 yearsThe human race will be wiped out in the next 100 years claim scientists[GETTY]

Experts today sounded the death knell for life on Earth warning we are devastatingly closed to reaching an evolutionary “tipping point”.

Alarming new statistics paint a Doomsday picture of the crippling effect human activity has had on the earth and the species around us.

And experts’ have put out a grim warning claiming that humans are heading the same way as the dinosaurs, with as little as 100 years left on the planet.

Research, published in the journal Science, claims the loss of so many animals could trigger the planet’s sixth mass biological extinction event.

Previous disasters - like the total disappearance of dinosaurs 65million years ago - are thought to have been caused by natural disasters or catastrophic asteroid strikes.

But our current collision course with Armageddon is entirely of our own making, according to Rodolfo Dirzo, Professor of Biology at Stanford University.

In the journal he presented evidence of more than 320 bird and animal species vanishing since the year 1500 due to human existence.

Meanwhile, populations of the five million species left have declined by an average 28 per cent.

end of the world doomsday volcanoThe end of the world could culminate in a mass biological extinction [GETTY]

Volcano spews ash into the airVolcanic ash could block out the sun and end human life [GETTY]

War, pollution, hunting, fishing, and intensive farming means a third of all life on Earth is now threatened or endangered.

Large animals, including elephants, rhinoceroses and polar bears, are facing their highest rate of decline - a catastrophic trend in line with Earth’s five previous extinction events.

Humans are at risk because when animals like zebras, giraffes and elephants vanish the land on which they thrived quickly gets overtaken by disease-carrying rodents, Professor Dirzo says.

In addition, the paper concludes, the human population has doubled in the past 35 years.

But during the same period the number of invertebrates - like beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms - has decreased by 45 per cent.

Insects pollinate 75 per cent of the world’s food crops and play a crucial role in decomposing organic materials, ensuring ecosystem productivity.




“Ironically, we have long considered defaunation is a cryptic phenomenon, but I think we will end up with a situation that is non-cryptic because of the increasingly obvious consequences to the planet and to human well-being.”

A study published by Nature in 2011 said we have just a century to mend our ways before the “tipping point” guaranteeing mass extinction is reached.