#extinctionEvents

2025-04-18

'[T]he Romantic idea of nature as an Edenesque space helped justify policies like the forced displacement of indigenous communities to create “protected areas” devoid of human life...

'Without first recognizing the delicate entanglements we have with the world around us, these #conservation strategies are part of the antagonistic approach to #ecology that got us into this mess.'

thebaffler.com/latest/de-extin
#extinction #extinctionEvents #deextinction #conservationism #ecosystems @ecology

Planetary Ecologistplanetaryecologist
2025-03-31

Extinction event (Evolutionary biology 🧬)

An extinction event is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the background extinction r...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extincti

2024-03-26

We are in one of #TheGreatest #ExtinctionEvents in #AllOfHistory and
No one mentions it on #Television

Not a single show

2024-02-06

Huronian glaciation (Glaciology 🗻)

The Huronian glaciation was a period where at least 3 ice ages occurred during the deposition of Huronian Supergroup. Deposition of this largely sedimentary succession extended from approximately 2.5 to 2.2 billion years ago, during the Siderian and Rhyacian periods of the Paleoproterozoic era. Evid...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huronian

#HuronianGlaciation #IceAges #Glaciology #ExtinctionEvents #PaleoproterozoicGeology #ProterozoicNorthAmerica

2023-12-13

Verneshot (Volcanology 🌋)

A verneshot is a hypothetical volcanic eruption event caused by the buildup of gas deep underneath a craton. Such an event may be forceful enough to launch an extreme amount of material from the crust and mantle into a sub-orbital trajectory, leading to significant further damage after the material crashes back down to the surface.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernesho

#Verneshot #JulesVerne #Volcanology #ExtinctionEvents #NaturalDisasters #DoomsdayScenarios

2019-10-23

Even if all the CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere isn't causing global warming, it is having another effect: ocean acidification. A lesson from a past global acidification event.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #OceanAcidification #ExtinctionEvents #Asteroids

theatlantic.com/science/archiv

2019-04-03

An even handed article on the current DePalma paper about a site that may have captured the aftermath of the asteroid impact that killed off the non-avian dinosaurs. That site is probably very interesting, geologically, but in terms of dinosaur fossils, we have to wait for future studies and results first.

#Dinosaurs #Fossils #Geology #Asteroids #ExtinctionEvents
sciencenews.org/article/new-fo

@galacticstone

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