#massextinction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #massextinction, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/480282/ Plants May Have Survived Earth’s Massive Extinctions by Doubling Their Genome #AncientGenomes #ClimateChange #Éire #EvolutionaryBiology #FloweringPlants #GenomeDuplication #IE #Ireland #KPgExtinction #MassExtinction #PlantGenetics #polyploidy #Science #WholeGenomeDuplication
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#WeekendReading: Dodd et al. about recurring marine phosphorus spikes during major Paleozoic mass extinctions, and how they might be driving anoxia.
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@ApostateEnglishman Indeed, with a massive worldwide push for monopolies on vital infrastructure, the push back against mono-anything is more just. The increasingly wide swings between these differentials, is also deeply concerning.
Are we in the throes of another #MassExtinction?
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/116410107922936590
The point which worries me most:
Most People assume it will be a linear process going down from 100% to zero.
But isn`t it like that the AMOC needs a certain momentum to support itself?
So what will be the breaking point which leads to a sudden stop? Will it be at 50%, 30% or when?
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@Soweitsogut
It is somehow very optimistic these days to count our future until 2100, since we are facing an ongoing #massextinction
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C. M. Lowery et al. (2026) discovered a quick #recovery of #marinelife after the #massextinction ~ 66 Ma ago. They calculated a new #calibration using the #biostratigraphic #marker (#Helium-3 from 6 K/Pg boundary sites) and dated the #duration until the recovery of the #foraminiferbiozone of 3.5 k.y. - 11.1 k.y. after the boundary, instead of former theses ∼30 k.y..
buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthRef
https://doi.org/10.1130/G53313.1© S.F. W, AI assisted #illustrations.
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C. M. Lowery et al. (2026) discovered a quick #recovery of #marinelife after the #massextinction ~ 66 Ma ago. They calculated a new #calibration using the #biostratigraphic #marker (#Helium-3 from 6 K/Pg boundary sites) and dated the #duration until the recovery of the #foraminiferbiozone of 3.5 k.y. - 11.1 k.y. after the boundary, instead of former theses ∼30 k.y..
buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthRef
https://doi.org/10.1130/G53313.1© S.F. W, AI assisted #illustrations.
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C. M. Lowery et al. (2026) discovered a quick #recovery of #marinelife after the #massextinction ~ 66 Ma ago. They calculated a new #calibration using the #biostratigraphic #marker (#Helium-3 from 6 K/Pg boundary sites) and dated the #duration until the recovery of the #foraminiferbiozone of 3.5 k.y. - 11.1 k.y. after the boundary, instead of former theses ∼30 k.y..
buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthRef
https://doi.org/10.1130/G53313.1© S.F. W, AI assisted #illustrations.
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C. M. Lowery et al. (2026) discovered a quick #recovery of #marinelife after the #massextinction ~ 66 Ma ago. They calculated a new #calibration using the #biostratigraphic #marker (#Helium-3 from 6 K/Pg boundary sites) and dated the #duration until the recovery of the #foraminiferbiozone of 3.5 k.y. - 11.1 k.y. after the boundary, instead of former theses ∼30 k.y..
buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthRef
https://doi.org/10.1130/G53313.1© S.F. W, AI assisted #illustrations.
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C. M. Lowery et al. (2026) discovered a quick #recovery of #marinelife after the #massextinction ~ 66 Ma ago. They calculated a new #calibration using the #biostratigraphic #marker (#Helium-3 from 6 K/Pg boundary sites) and dated the #duration until the recovery of the #foraminiferbiozone of 3.5 k.y. - 11.1 k.y. after the boundary, instead of former theses ∼30 k.y..
buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthRef
https://doi.org/10.1130/G53313.1© S.F. W, AI assisted #illustrations.
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Shadows of 512 million years ago: "A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction", Zeng et al. 2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10030-0Code and datasets: https://www.scidb.cn/en/detail?dataSetId=0e04cad6d88b4fbc843031cc650212e0
#evolution #EdiacaranFauna #Cambrian #SinskEvent #MassExtinction
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@3sat #YannArthusBertrand danke ❤️
#love #doku #natur #dokumentation #documentation #docu #farbfernsehen #natur #solidarität #solidarity #örr #3sat #mediathek #pilze #mushrooms #fangus #biodiversität #biodiversity #umwelt #environment #hoffnung #gemeinschaft #community #plants #pflanzen #berge #bäume #mountains #trees #klima #climate #klimawandel #climatechange #massextinction #climatecrisis #klimakrise #wildfires #wildlife #pestizide #pesticides #pfas #microplastic #floods #UN #Aufklärung #Bewusstsein #Sinn #Machtlosigkeit #Empathie #Gemeinsam #Gesellschaft #konsum #staygrounded #sustainability #nachhaltigkeit #tourism #travel #urlaub #reisen #socialMedia #everest #safari #Globalisierung #grundwasser #bio #organic #naturschutz #rainforest #regenwald #vegan #fastfashion #wasser #water #recycling #right2Repair #repair #beton #concrete #endFossilFuels #fff #co2 #bund #climatejustice #nokings #extinctionRebellion #fakeNews #cop #hannahArendt #solidarität #solidarity #müde #notjustsad #liebe #janeGodall
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@3sat #YannArthusBertrand danke ❤️
#love #doku #natur #dokumentation #documentation #docu #farbfernsehen #natur #solidarität #solidarity #örr #3sat #mediathek #pilze #mushrooms #fangus #biodiversität #biodiversity #umwelt #environment #hoffnung #gemeinschaft #community #plants #pflanzen #berge #bäume #mountains #trees #klima #climate #klimawandel #climatechange #massextinction #climatecrisis #klimakrise #wildfires #wildlife #pestizide #pesticides #pfas #microplastic #floods #UN #Aufklärung #Bewusstsein #Sinn #Machtlosigkeit #Empathie #Gemeinsam #Gesellschaft #konsum #staygrounded #sustainability #nachhaltigkeit #tourism #travel #urlaub #reisen #socialMedia #everest #safari #Globalisierung #grundwasser #bio #organic #naturschutz #rainforest #regenwald #vegan #fastfashion #wasser #water #recycling #right2Repair #repair #beton #concrete #endFossilFuels #fff #co2 #bund #climatejustice #nokings #extinctionRebellion #fakeNews #cop #hannahArendt #solidarität #solidarity #müde #notjustsad #liebe #janeGodall
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@3sat #YannArthusBertrand danke ❤️
#love #doku #natur #dokumentation #documentation #docu #farbfernsehen #natur #solidarität #solidarity #örr #3sat #mediathek #pilze #mushrooms #fangus #biodiversität #biodiversity #umwelt #environment #hoffnung #gemeinschaft #community #plants #pflanzen #berge #bäume #mountains #trees #klima #climate #klimawandel #climatechange #massextinction #climatecrisis #klimakrise #wildfires #wildlife #pestizide #pesticides #pfas #microplastic #floods #UN #Aufklärung #Bewusstsein #Sinn #Machtlosigkeit #Empathie #Gemeinsam #Gesellschaft #konsum #staygrounded #sustainability #nachhaltigkeit #tourism #travel #urlaub #reisen #socialMedia #everest #safari #Globalisierung #grundwasser #bio #organic #naturschutz #rainforest #regenwald #vegan #fastfashion #wasser #water #recycling #right2Repair #repair #beton #concrete #endFossilFuels #fff #co2 #bund #climatejustice #nokings #extinctionRebellion #fakeNews #cop #hannahArendt #solidarität #solidarity #müde #notjustsad #liebe #janeGodall
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@3sat #YannArthusBertrand danke ❤️
#love #doku #natur #dokumentation #documentation #docu #farbfernsehen #natur #solidarität #solidarity #örr #3sat #mediathek #pilze #mushrooms #fangus #biodiversität #biodiversity #umwelt #environment #hoffnung #gemeinschaft #community #plants #pflanzen #berge #bäume #mountains #trees #klima #climate #klimawandel #climatechange #massextinction #climatecrisis #klimakrise #wildfires #wildlife #pestizide #pesticides #pfas #microplastic #floods #UN #Aufklärung #Bewusstsein #Sinn #Machtlosigkeit #Empathie #Gemeinsam #Gesellschaft #konsum #staygrounded #sustainability #nachhaltigkeit #tourism #travel #urlaub #reisen #socialMedia #everest #safari #Globalisierung #grundwasser #bio #organic #naturschutz #rainforest #regenwald #vegan #fastfashion #wasser #water #recycling #right2Repair #repair #beton #concrete #endFossilFuels #fff #co2 #bund #climatejustice #nokings #extinctionRebellion #fakeNews #cop #hannahArendt #solidarität #solidarity #müde #notjustsad #liebe #janeGodall
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@3sat #YannArthusBertrand danke ❤️
#love #doku #natur #dokumentation #documentation #docu #farbfernsehen #natur #solidarität #solidarity #örr #3sat #mediathek #pilze #mushrooms #fangus #biodiversität #biodiversity #umwelt #environment #hoffnung #gemeinschaft #community #plants #pflanzen #berge #bäume #mountains #trees #klima #climate #klimawandel #climatechange #massextinction #climatecrisis #klimakrise #wildfires #wildlife #pestizide #pesticides #pfas #microplastic #floods #UN #Aufklärung #Bewusstsein #Sinn #Machtlosigkeit #Empathie #Gemeinsam #Gesellschaft #konsum #staygrounded #sustainability #nachhaltigkeit #tourism #travel #urlaub #reisen #socialMedia #everest #safari #Globalisierung #grundwasser #bio #organic #naturschutz #rainforest #regenwald #vegan #fastfashion #wasser #water #recycling #right2Repair #repair #beton #concrete #endFossilFuels #fff #co2 #bund #climatejustice #nokings #extinctionRebellion #fakeNews #cop #hannahArendt #solidarität #solidarity #müde #notjustsad #liebe #janeGodall
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„Die Delphine wurden von den hohen Temperaturen gekocht“ #climateCrisis #MassExtinction #BiodiversityLoss #planetaryCrisis www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
Amazonas-Regenwald: Kipppunkt ... -
Were mass extinctions caused by the accumulation of prions in the environment?
#massextinction #prion #prions #extinction #animals #infectiousdiseases #misfoldedproteins #incurablediseases #ecology -
“It's a view of Mother Earth as we've never seen her, and it just might help us solve some our most existential issues.”
Yeah that would be great if humans would stop killing each other and focus on the climate crisis.
#climatecrisis #massextinction #killing #war #greed #humanstupidity
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quand est-ce que nous ferons un choix ?
la rénovation énergétique OU la préservation du patrimoine ?parce que préserver un patrimoine sans préserver l'humanité, bof quand même...
si il n'y a plus personne pour habiter dans un bâtiment, on s'en fout qu'il soit joli -
Are we in a sixth #massextinction?
We’re in a #biodiversity crisis, but it's tough to compare it to past periods of #massdeath
https://www.popsci.com/environment/are-we-in-a-sixth-mass-extinction/
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#Biologists Alarmed as Newly Discovered Chain Reaction Threatens to Trigger #MassExtinction Across Multiple #Species Worldwide
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Even the worst #massextinction had its oases
Scientists have debated whether this event caused nearly as much terrestrial destruction. Now, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggest that #terrestrial #ecosystems did not suffer nearly as much as the #oceans.
Plants thrived in present-day #China throughout the End-#Permian #extinction.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/even-the-worst-mass-extinction-had-its-oases/ -
‘The dirtiest coal-fired power plant in the US and dozens of others are being exempted from stringent air pollution mandates as part of US President Donald Trump’s bid to revitalize the industry.
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The Trump administration has argued coal is a vital part of the mix to ensure sufficient energy supply to meet booming demand for AI data centers.’
SLOP is killing us. No Skynet by far, but simply by attrition. #AnthropoceneExtinction #HoloceneExtinction #GreatAcceleration #MassExtinction -
Dr. Emily Judd: "The impact of anthropogenic climate change is (and will continue to be) determined by the rate of change (meaning how quickly CO2 and temperature change) much more than the absolute temperatures, themselves."
cited by @hausfath there: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-skeptics-have-new-favorite 🧵
#massExtinction #massExtinctions #climate #climateChange #globalHeating #climateBreakdown #climateHeating #quotes #research #study #CO2 #emissions
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Terrestrial life oasis from end-#Permian mass #extinction period discovered
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-terrestrial-life-oasis-permian-mass.html paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads5614"a region in Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium for terrestrial #plants during the end-Permian #MassExtinction... The discovery provides the first conclusive fossil evidence of a terrestrial plant community that remained largely undisturbed throughout the extinction event, allowing for continuous evolution and rapid ecological recovery afterward."
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Ancient #amphibians bounced back from Earth's greatest mass #extinction by exploiting #freshwater prey https://phys.org/news/2025-03-ancient-amphibians-earth-greatest-mass.html
The ecology and geography of #temnospondyl recovery after the #Permian–#Triassic #MassExtinction https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241200
"the #temnospondyls success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, enabling them to feed on a wide variety of prey... the freshwater habitats they preferred provided them with a relatively stable variety of food resources"
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Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the #Pyrocene
by Stephen Pyne, The Conversation, January 22, 2025
"#LosAngeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in #Colorado, the southern #Appalachians and the island of #Maui, along with #Canada, #Australia, #Portugal and #Greece. What wasn't burned was smoked in.
"Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join past to present or an analog for what is to come?
"I'm a historian of fire, and my reply is that we have both a narrative and an analog. The narrative is the unbroken saga of humanity and fire, a companionship that extends through all our existence as a species. The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age."
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Welcome to the Pyrocene
"Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions and sea-level changes. It's an epoch in which fire is both prime mover and principal expression.
"Humanity's firepower underpins the #Anthropocene, which is the outcome not just of #anthropogenic meddling but of a particular kind of meddling, made possible by humans' species monopoly over fire. Even climate history has become a subset of fire history.
"Fires in living landscapes, fires burning lithic landscapes—the interaction of these two realms of fire has not been much studied. It's been enough of a stretch to fully include human fire practices within traditional ecology. Yet humans—the keystone species for fire on Earth—are merging the two arenas of earthly burning with a give and take that is reshaping the planet in what resembles a slow-motion #Ragnarok.
"Add up all the effects, direct and indirect: the ice driven off by fire, the areas burning, the biogeographical #migrations as biotas move to accommodate changed conditions, the collateral impacts with damaged #watersheds and #airsheds, the unraveling of #ecosystems, the pervasive power of #ClimateChange, #RisingSeaLevels, a #MassExtinction, the disruption of human life and habitats. The result is a #pyrogeography that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a maturing Pyrocene.
"If you doubt it, just ask California."
Full article (it's a good read):
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-human-era-uncontrolled-pyrocene.html
#Wildfires #UncontrolledFires #HistoryOfFire #PyroceneEra #ControlledBurning #ClimateCrisis -
A ‘Cop of peace’? How can #authoritarian, #HumanRights-trashing #Azerbaijan possibly host that?
"The #ClimateCrisis is just as much about protecting human rights as it is about protecting the #Climate and #biodiversity. You cannot claim to care about #ClimateJustice if you ignore the sufferings of oppressed and #colonised people today. We cannot pick and choose whose human rights to care for, and who to leave behind. Climate justice means justice, safety and freedom for everyone."
by #GretaThunberg, November 11, 2024
"Cop meetings have proven to be #greenwashing conferences that legitimise countries’ failures to ensure a livable world and future and have also allowed authoritarian regimes like #Azerbaijan and the two previous hosts – the #UnitedArabEmirates and #Egypt – to continue violating human rights.
"#Genocides, #ecocides, #famines, #wars, #colonialism, rising inequalities and an escalating #ClimateCollapse are all interconnected crises that reinforce each other and lead to unimaginable suffering. While #humanitarian crises are unfolding in #Palestine, #Yemen, #Afghanistan, #Sudan, #Congo, #Kurdistan, #Lebanon, #Balochistan, #Ukraine, #NagornoKarabakh / #Artsakh, and many, many other places, humanity is also breaching the 1.5C #GreenhouseGas emissions limit, with no signs of real reductions in sight.
"Instead, the opposite is taking place – last year, global emissions reached an all-time high. #Heat records have been shattered, and this year is 'virtually certain' to be the hottest year ever recorded, with unprecedented #ExtremeWeather events pushing the planet further into uncharted territory. The destabilisation of the biosphere and the natural #ecosystems we depend on to survive is leading to untold human suffering and further accelerating the #MassExtinction of flora and fauna."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wip/M0xcU#COP29 #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #CorporateColonialism #CorporateFascism #Greenwashing #BigOilAndGas #PetroState #DefendTheSacred #MotherEarth #LivingBiosphere
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Another year of heat records both on land and in the oceans, catastrophic #wildfires, #floods, and #hurricanes and all the #GOP wants to do is to eliminate NOAA, cut FEMA funding, close the Department of Education, ban abortions nation-wide, deport immigrants, criminally prosecute critics, oppress women, increase polluting and consumption, enrich billionaires and corporations, and dash our last hope for mitigation of the looming #ClimateDisaster and #MassExtinction that will make this Earth uninhabitable... and still many believing #Christians vote #Republican despite the planned destruction of their #God's #Creation and the suffering and deaths this will cause. #WTFUSA #WTFChristianity #WhereWereYouRadicalized #WhatsWrongWithYou
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New on 'Stuff': Book Review - Life on a Young Planet #⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #book-review #english #archaeology #astrobiology #mass-extinction #geology #biology #science #cambrian #ediacaran https://stuff.graves.cl/posts/2024-08-28_19_59-book-review-life-on-a-young-planet.html
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@maugendre @climate Here is a follow-up four years later:
Professor Julia Steinberger wrote a geopolitical roundup: "Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it."
https://jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-up-against-2290ba8c4b5c#opinion #influence #neoliberalism #capitalism #cultureWars #massExtinction #climate #activism #climateActivism #climateChange #globalHeating #climateBreakdown #institutionsDeceive #geopolitics #domination #money #extraction #fossilFuels #thinkTanks #oilAndGas #JuliaSteinberger
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3 million years ago, greenhouse gas was lower (at 360ppm). Temperatures were warmer, and sea levels were 20 meters higher.
Professor Gavin Foster: “The reason we don’t see #Pliocene-like temperatures and sea-levels yet today is because it takes a while for Earth’s @climate to fully equilibrate (catch up) to higher CO2 levels and, because of human emissions, CO2 levels are still climbing.”
Julia Steinberger: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-15/cogs-in-the-climate-machine/
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Wow! The murderer is identified. What a crime story!
Cars are bad for us. Tire rub-off is bad for us. Tire rub-off flushed into rivers during storms regularly kills 90% of coho salmon in Canada. 😱
But which compound is the actual murder weapon? 💀tldr: a product called 6PPD is added to tire rubber. It is "designed to diffuse to tire rubber surfaces, rapidly scavenge ground-level atmospheric ozone and other reactive oxidant species, and form protective films to prevent ozone-mediated oxidation of structurally important rubber elastomers".
But 6PPD is ofc also rubbed off the tire. So then it reacts with near-ground ozone (which is plentiful thanks to combustion engines, I think). By this process it becomes 6PPD--quinone, up to now an environmental unknown, undocumented, un-researched.
And it is this 6PPD--quinone that kills the salmon when a rain storm washes streets clean and the 6PPD--quinone concentration in the water rises to lethal levels.
The authors describe in detail their 2.5 years of working like true detectives. From dead ends over wrong turns to enlightenment... Fun read for nerds – or people who see movie-like scenes when reading science papers. 😁
Now.
#Salmon has economic importance. Hence the regular mass deaths were observed. Hence the meticulous detectoring applied.
Open question: what do we think, how many other species in water or soil are exposed to lethal tire rub-off? And what is their individual level for lethal concentration, and which tire chemical does them in?
Since publication 2020 the paper was cited 780 times. I reckon, we'll find several answers in those 780 papers. ^^We are observing #MassExtinction. Is environmental harm from car-centred lifestyles by 4bn people affordable? #mobility #Mobilität #water #pollution #storm
"A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon" #Tian et al 2020
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@t3n 🤨
Genau deshalb kümmert es die meisten wenig was die Klimakatastrophe betrifft.
Weil IMMER WIEDER "aufgezeigt" wird was in XX Jahren "passieren" wird wenn wir nicht... bevorzugt zu einer Zeit zu der die meisten von uns schon tot sein werden = egal.🤪OB IHR MAL DIE NACHRICHTEN GESEHEN HABT WAS GLOBAL JETZT SCHON SO "LOS" IST, FRAGE ICH.😡
#Ernten #Wassermangel #Fluten #Hitzetote #Resourcenkriege #Oekozide #Massextinction #Nahrungsketten #Panamakanal ...
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“Humans were meant to take their modest place in a seamless, stable-state web of living organisms, disturbing that web as little as possible.”
— Ernest Callenbach, “Ecotopia” (1975)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia
#Utopia #SaveThePlanet #Degrowth #Decroissance #TheLimitsToGrowth #Humility #Ecology #Biology #BioDiversity #MassExtinction
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This #EarthDay, here's a reminder that environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening*.
*Nothing against gardening, but we're currently facing global ecological collapse within our lifetimes.
#environment #ecology #ecological #greensocialism #green #greensocialist #ecocide #ecosocialism #ecosocialist #earthday2024 #happyearthday #happyearthday2024 #environmental #environmentalist #environmentalism #gardening #biosphere #foodweb #ecologicalcollapse #extinction #massextinction #earth #motherearth
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#ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court
While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'
Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”
By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024
"In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’
"The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.
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"This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'"'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the #protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by #biodiversity and #ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'
"Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.
"Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html#ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders
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Three friends are just now heading out to visit the #UNESCO #WorldHeritage #ComoeNationalPark area in #IvoryCoast for an awareness and info campaign to bolster its protection within the local communities around.
Their not-for-profit foundation Deutsche Stiftung für den Comoé Nationalpark #DSCN / Fondation Allemande pour le Parc National de la #Comoé #FAPNAC https://www.comoe-stiftung.org is organizing workshops and awarding scholarships to talented local children and students to enable them staying in school/uni.
The park is renowned for its great plant and animal #Biodiversity.
Donations are very much welcomed by Prof. Judith Korb (currently researching at University #Freiburg, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judith-Korb) and her team from DSCN/FAPNAC.
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/227#wildlife
#conservationbiology
#ecology
#ecologycrisis
#ecologyandconservation
#massextinction
#ecologie
#extinctiondemasse
#CôteDIvoire
#ParcNationalDeLaComoé
#Elfenbeinküste
#Ökologie
#Biodiversität
#Naturschutz
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Welcome to the #extinction capital of the world
Our planet faces a #MassExtinction. I visited ground zero.
By Benji Jones
Dec 14, 2023, 8:00am ESTPEARL CITY, #Oahu — "On a warm November afternoon in a trailer not far from Pearl Harbor, a scientist named David Sischo popped open the lid to a small plastic tank. From a jumble of leaves, he pulled out something precious.
"'I would argue that they’re one of the rarest animals on Earth,' Sischo said.
"A hand wearing a blue latex glove holds a clear plastic petri dish with five small cream and brown striped snails above a box containing green vegetation.
"David Sischo holds a petri dish with a handful of Achatinella fulgens #snails.
"In his hands were several cream-colored snails. They had thin brown bands circling their shells, like swirls of caramel in a small scoop of ice cream.
"The snails were asleep and tucked into their shells as Sischo placed them on a petri dish (snails are nocturnal). But after a few minutes, their antennae popped out, their gooey feet emerged, and they started to move. Slowly.
"These snails, a species called Achatinella fulgens, are one step away from #extinction. They only exist in this room, a lab that’s part of the state’s Snail Extinction Prevention Program (#SEPP). Funded in part by the Endangered Species Act (#ESA), it’s a modern-day Noah’s ark, home to roughly 40 species of snails that are either extinct in the wild or about to be.
"In recent decades, hundreds of species of snails have gone extinct across the Hawaiian Islands, said Sischo, a state biologist who runs SEPP. Another hundred are now at risk of blinking out. These animals may lack charisma by some definitions, but they are revered in native Hawaiian culture and linchpins in their ecosystems. They recycle nutrients, helping fertilize the forest, a source of water for the island."
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A newly formed supercontinent will be inhospitable for humans | indy100
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/supercontinent-inhabitable-humans-pangea-ultima#NewPangea
#MassExtinctionOfMammals
#MassExtinction
#Inhospitable
#Panga
#SuperContinent
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An internal government document reveals how B.C., citing ‘significant impacts’ on forest sector jobs and provincial revenue, aims to prevent Ottawa from stepping in to save a species on the cusp of #Canadian #extinction
https://thenarwhal.ca/spotted-owl-emergency-order-documents
#EmergencyOrder #BCNDP #NewDeathParty #CorporateGreed #SpeciesAtRisk #WildlifeAtRisk #ecology #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #SpottedOwl #MassExtinction #birders #InternalDocuments
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Coelacanths thrived after a mass extinction
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-fossil-coelacanths-switzerland-mass-extinction.htmlEarly #Mesozoic burst of morphological disparity in the slow-evolving #coelacanth fish lineage https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37849-9
"The biggest #MassExtinction of the last 500 million years occurred 252 million years ago... The #coelacanths, which lived about 10 million years after this disaster, demonstrate that they could still take advantage of the post-#extinction Earth environment to evolve into unique forms throughout their history"
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You best start believing in mass extinction events, you're in one!
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Nuclear bomb fallout chosen to define start of Anthropocene
"The #ClimateCrisis is the most prominent impact of the #Anthropocene, but huge losses of wildlife, the spread of invasive species, and the widespread pollution of the planet with plastics and nitrates are also key features."
#ClimateChange #MassExtinction #AWG #Nuclear #Geology #Environment
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@MartinStendel@fediscience.
CNN June 20, 2023
“Richard Unsworth, an associate professor of biosciences at Swansea University in the UK and a founding director of Project-Seagrass, called the Atlantic heat wave “totally unprecedented.”…“While we can’t in detail predict the intensity, duration and location of severe heating events such as the current marine heatwave, we know they’re increasingly likely to be more prevalent as our climate system collapses further,” Unsworth said.”
“As our climate system collapses further “ is one terrifying comment.
And still the fossil fuels pour into the atmosphere.
#ClimateEmergency #OceanTemperatures #OceanHeatWave
#ElNino
#massextinction
