In some ways, the planet’s worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.
Matter: The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
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Biodiversity is the ‘infrastructure that supports all life’
Complete Article From the publisher.Dr Cristiana Pașca Palmer, UN assistant secretary general and executive secretary of the convention on biological diversity, discusses Half Earth, a future biodiversity agreement and where to find the money to […]
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Shoestring expedition returns with wild photos from Sumatra
Complete Article From the publisher.A shoestring expedition to one of the remotest places in Sumatra has returned with stunning photos of tigers, tapirs, clouded leopards among other rare species, large and small. Will they find […]
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The ‘great dying’: rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says
Complete Article From the publisher.Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago Rapid global warming caused the largest extinction event in the Earth’s history, which […]