#massextinction — Public Fediverse posts

It's too hot for camels to survive.

“Experts say camels comfortably beat the heat up to 40°C… (but) in many parts of the Sahara, summer temperatures now frequently exceed 50°C… (and) the unprecedented intensity of current heatwaves directly threatens their vital functions, turning this historically resilient animal into a climate victim”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlxvvw06pqo

#extinction #extinctions #heatwaves #temperature #temperatures #niches #climateChange #ecology #massExtinction #collapse #Africa

@greenpeace It gets far worse when studies show overlapping biomes, such as air, water, land/forests, are more in sync in accelerating destabilization, resulting in eventual collapse.

The jury is out on this being a 1 in 100 #MassExtinction event.

Activities force climate shifts, which in turn disable life.
Some mitigation could be envisaged:
"Maintaining functioning ecosystems in a hotter world will require mass-scale assisted colonisation, so appropriate conservation policy, legislative frameworks and regulating bodies must be urgently developed."
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70027

#climatePolicy #deregulation #extinctions #extinction #climateChange #ecology #massExtinction #adaptation #globalHeating #survival

"I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quantitative global assessment of climate change extinctions.
"With increased certainty, this meta-analysis suggests that extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. "
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4461

#extinctions #extinction #climateChange #ecology #massExtinction

Study Suggests a Bizarre Cause for the Biggest Extinction, But Could It Happen? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCS_Q--pJ1U

#Earth #MassExtinction

The Northern hemisphere is burning up while the U.S. and Russia wage war.
#wildfire #climatecrisis #massextinction #russia #USA #war #putin #trump

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☄️🔥 A recent study from #Purdue suggests fine dust from the #Chicxulub impact trapped heat in the upper #atmosphere, effectively charbroiling exposed organisms within hours.

Post-impact dust would have delivered 17 times the lethal #radiation dose for #humans, igniting #grass and #lichen across the #planet.

👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/dust-cloud-from-dino-killing-asteroid-charbroiled-the-earth/

#dinosaurs #asteroid #massextinction #cretaceous #science #paleontology #earthscience #wildfires #astronomy

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌸🌿 #Utrecht University researchers studied drill cores from the #UK and Northwest #Europe to track #wildfires during the end-Triassic #extinction 201 million years ago.

Using a new darkness index on #fossil pollen and a fern-to-fern #fire cycle, they found that #CO2-driven #warming collapsed #forests and let #ferns fuel intense repeated burns for up to 300,000 years. The ferns acted as both disaster colonizers and self-perpetuating wildfire fuel.

👉 https://www.uu.nl/en/news/triassic-inferno-fires-raged-across-europe-for-thousands-of-years-during-past-global-warming

#triassic #massextinction #climate #climatechange #palynology #paleontology #geology #earthscience #globalwarming #research #nature #deforestation #science

There is a layer in Late Triassic rocks in Europe called ‘the dark zone’, because it's full of darkening of pollen and spores. Its origin is in forest collapse and intense fires during the end-Triassic mass extinction.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-02048-4

#Triassic #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Forest

Let's say something killed ~90% of life on a planet, like in the Great Dying here on Terra. How long is it going to take the ecology to recover, and where will it start? (~5Myr and surprisingly heavy on the top of the food chain).

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-025-00117-2

#PTB #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Recovery

Every mammal alive today, including you, is a descendant of the small, scared creatures that somehow clawed through those years of darkness. The cataclysm that ended the dinosaurs is, in the most literal sense, the reason you exist.

https://dino-world.com/the-day-the-earth-changed-new-evidence-on-the-cataclysm-that-ended-the-dinosaurs-2-53715/

#dinosaurs #Chicxulub #asteroid #massextinction #lifeonEarth #science

Greenhouse forcing:
"We find that the likelihood of the occurrence of climate regime shifts significantly increases in the context of super El Niño events due to their remarkable climate perturbations. This higher probability is detected across various climate elements, such as surface air temperature, sea surface temperature, and surface soil moisture. In addition, we suggest that this boost effect of super El Niño events on climate regime shifts will be greatly amplified under future greenhouse warming."

Xue, A., Geng, X., Jin, FF. et al. (2025). "Super El Niño events drive climate regime shifts with enhanced risks under global warming" https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66143-7

#RatchetEffect #acceleration #ENSO #ElNiño #massExtinction #massExtinctions #climate #climateChange #globalHeating #globalWarming #climateBreakdown #climateHeating #research #study

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦪🌡️ A #Stanford led study explains why #clams and #snails dominate modern shorelines while #brachiopods barely survived the #GreatDying.

Researchers measured #oxygen consumption in living #animals to show that slower metabolisms could not cope with warming, oxygen depleted waters 252 million years ago. The authors warn that today’s warming #oceans could trigger a similar ecological shift.

👉 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260711010122.htm

#permiantriassic #massextinction #climatechange #marinebiology #science #paleontology #evolution #metabolism #oceanwarming #mollusks #earthscience #adaptation

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐒🌿 Professor Amy McEuen argues that conserving #primates like #gibbons and #langurs in #China can protect entire #ecosystems through the umbrella species approach.

The same strategy behind successful #panda #conservation preserving hundreds of endemic species could work for primates that need large #forest #habitats. McEuen points to species already adapting to #climatechange as evidence that no conservation effort is too small.

👉 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/monkeys-apes-6th-extinction-prevention-b3014017.html

#monkeys #apes #umbrellaspecies #biodiversity #massextinction #wildlife #ecology #endangeredspecies #climate

9-Jul-2026
Researchers confirm cause of Earth’s biggest mass #extinction

^^ the one 252 mya, the biggest #massExtinction _so far_

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1135567

#science #ecology #climateCatastrophe

For our consideration >>

Metamorphic #sulfur release as a driver of sustained cooling and #massextinction | Science Advances

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee2277

How much do you need to change temprature to start a mass extinction? To learn from Earth's history, magnitudes larger than 5.2 °C and rates higher than 10 °C/Myr (our current rate of change is ~8,620 °C/Myr).

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25019-2

#ClimateChange #MassExtinction

I was reading about the demand for Full Stack developers and started to think about generalists around mass extinctions. It's something the paleoecological community has been debating; we seem to agree it's not good to be a specialist in bad times.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep30965

#Selection #MassExtinction

Okay then. The result is pretty much what we have always assumed, but it is nice to put some numbers on it.
#MassExtinction #EnvironmentChanges #environment #lifeAdaptation
https://news.mit.edu/2026/when-environmental-change-outpaces-life-ability-to-adapt-0624

@Lazarou It is, after all, classic #DivideAndConquer #Strategy.

Even a brief deep dive into #MassExtinction Events leaves one to wonder if fossil fuels lobbyists have finally convinced the wealthiest, along with crony politicians, on what the most modern collapse would look like, and just much we, the elite humans, can be the last and strongest standing.

Yep, genocide can be quite butt fucking ugly.

#WeekendReading: Dodd et al. about recurring marine phosphorus spikes during major Paleozoic mass extinctions, and how they might be driving anoxia.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70701-y

#MassExtinction #Ocean #Anoxia #Paleozoic

#Permian marine #MassExtinction linked to #volcanism-induced anoxia https://phys.org/news/2023-12-permian-marine-mass-extinction-linked.html

Coupled #volcanic activity and marine #anoxia in the Upper #Yangtze region prior to the #Capitanian mass #extinction https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009254123005399

"The geochemical data and decline in calcareous #algae and fusulinacean #foraminifera... indicates #MarineAnoxia and more pronounced stratification... In such conditions, #OxygenMinimumZones likely developed... that would have inhibited the survival of organisms."

Geologists find evidence of dual #MassExtinctions 260 million years ago https://phys.org/news/2023-04-geology-experts-evidence-dual-mass.html

Global oceanic #anoxia linked with the Capitanian (Middle #Permian) marine #MassExtinction https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X23001413

Oxygen-deprived oceans precipitated two mass extinctions around 259 million and 262 million years ago during the Middle Permian Period.

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#pointofview #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #handcarvedstamp #linocut #makeartnotwar #savediversity #climatecrisis #massextinction #extinctionrebellion #systemchange #fightneoliberalism #stopwar #fckptn #нетвойны #humanrights #humans #soldier #toxicmasculinity #structuralviolence #violation #victim #despair #thecry #chainsaw #worker #labourer #emblematy #tobiasmagass #baroque #tamethebeast #dragon