mass extinctions, Tag

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading about how we’re already well into the “Sixth Wave Of Extinctions”­. Now, I’ve studied this question extensively. I started back in 2010…

Guest “Geology Rocks!” by David Middleton Impact Crater off the African Coast May Be Linked to ChicxulubThe underwater crater, spotted serendipitously in commercial observations of seafloor sediments, is believed...

Losing species in tropical ecosystems means ecological resilience to environmental changes is reduced, potentially compromising ecosystem persistence. In subtropical ecosystems, species richness is increasing. This means...

The “escalator to extinction” theory argues organisms must migrate to higher elevations where a cooler altitude will offset global warming temperatures...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to a new study, vast quantities of burning coal contributed to the Permo-Triassic Extinction, which killed 70% of all vertebrate species...

  Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Reading widely across the literature of many scientific fields broadens one’s view of the rate of scientific progress — both our increased knowledge and our “steps backwards”. ...

Guest geology by David Middleton Cenozoic Era: The Era of New Life Who would have ever guessed that details about the first day of the Cenozoic Era might have been preserved the stratigraphic record? Sep 09, 2019Rocks at...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Archaeologists have advanced a theory that towns and people in a region just north of the Dead Sea may have been obliterated by a Tunguska style airburst, 3,700 years ago...

From Eurekalert European Commission Joint Research Centre The complex network of interdependencies between plants and animals multiplies the species at risk of extinction due to environmental change, according to a JRC study...

By Andy May This is part four of our series on climate change costs and hazards. The first three parts were on humans and the environment, population and the food supply, and the cost of global warming. In this part we examine...

David Middleton Here’s a novel take on the Siberian Traps and the End-Permian extinction: Geology Massive underground magma pulse caused the world’s largest mass-extinction The end-Permian wiped out almost all...

  Guest post by David Middleton Sixth Mass Extinction or Sixth Mass Genesis? By Chris Thomas July 14, 2017 Animals and plants are seemingly disappearing faster than at any time since the dinosaurs died out, 66m years...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – According to renowned Smithsonian Paleontologist Doug Erwin, people who claim we are in the midst of an anthropogenic mass extinction don’t have a clue what a mass extinction...

There Was the Gratuitous Lie about the Current Mass Extinction. Guest post by David Middleton Rare Earth Extinction America’s pronghorns are survivors of a mass extinction  At the end of the last Ice Age, most large...