Their multiproxy measurements established a clear connection between the steady creep of deoxygenated waters and the step-wise nature of the
extinction event -- its start in communities of deep-water organisms and eventual spread to shallow-water organisms.
The foreshadowing of another great
extinction event should shatter the idea of the Cartesian man - one that separates itself from nature - rather, people like Trump are reaffirming it.
Continued accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans could trigger a chemical reaction in the planet's carbon cycle that could potentially lead to a mass
extinction event.
1 for the
extinction event that wiped out the world's non-avian dinosaurs, from T-Rex to the three-horned Triceratops.
WWF's own Living Planet" report in October said that 60 percent of all animals with a backbone and fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals and had been wiped out by human activity since 1970.Another study confirmed that a recent decline in bugs that fly, crawl, burrow and skitter across still water and fuelled by deforestation, urbanisation and the rise of commercial farming and was part of an unfolding mass
extinction event, only the sixth in the last half-billion years.Last year, Earth Hour was observed in more than 7,000 towns and cities in 187 countries, according to the organisers.
However, the data does show that the
extinction event is impacting both generalist and specialist insect species.
"We are witnessing the largest
extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods," the authors noted.
THE global decline of insects is the "largest
extinction event on Earth", a review has warned.
More than two-thirds of life on Earth died off some 252 million years ago, in the largest mass
extinction event in Earth's history.
The
extinction event at the end of the Permian period 252 million years ago wiped out 96% of all marine species and 70% of land-dwelling vertebrates.
The songs are inspired by the thought of a terrible, global
extinction event and its aftermath...