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  1. Underground gases may explain Earth’s most devastating climate changes and mass extinctions

    A hidden process deep beneath Earth’s surface may have played a powerful role in some of the most…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #ancientextinction #AU #Australia #geologicalprocess #Geology #GlobalGoodNews #massextinction #massextinctionresearch #metamorphic #NewDiscoveries #research
    newsbeep.com/au/848461/

  2. New research explains how high temperatures and less oxygen led to a huge loss of marine life millions of years ago. #massextinction

    phys.org/news/2026-07-link-mas

  3. New research explains how high temperatures and less oxygen led to a huge loss of marine life millions of years ago. #massextinction

    phys.org/news/2026-07-link-mas

  4. New research explains how high temperatures and less oxygen led to a huge loss of marine life millions of years ago. #massextinction

    phys.org/news/2026-07-link-mas

  5. Uh oh...
    "The biggest mass extinction of all time started from a world that is very similar to today in having a relatively cool, relatively well-oxygenated ocean, and then there was a giant injection of carbon dioxide into the Earth system,"
    #MassExtinction #TheGreatDying #extinctions
    sciencealert.com/earths-bigges

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

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

  7. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

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

  8. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

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

  9. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

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

  10. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

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

  11. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 uu.nl/en/news/triassic-inferno

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

  12. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 uu.nl/en/news/triassic-inferno

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

  13. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 uu.nl/en/news/triassic-inferno

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

  14. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 uu.nl/en/news/triassic-inferno

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

  15. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 uu.nl/en/news/triassic-inferno

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

  16. 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: nature.com/articles/s41561-026

    #Triassic #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Forest

  17. 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: nature.com/articles/s41561-026

    #Triassic #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Forest

  18. 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: nature.com/articles/s41561-026

    #Triassic #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Forest

  19. 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: nature.com/articles/s41561-026

    #Triassic #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Forest

  20. 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: nature.com/articles/s41561-026

    #Triassic #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Forest

  21. 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: nature.com/articles/s44185-025

    #PTB #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Recovery

  22. 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: nature.com/articles/s44185-025

    #PTB #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Recovery

  23. 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: nature.com/articles/s44185-025

    #PTB #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Recovery

  24. 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: nature.com/articles/s44185-025

    #PTB #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Recovery

  25. 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: nature.com/articles/s44185-025

    #PTB #MassExtinction #Paleoecology #Recovery

  26. 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.

    dino-world.com/the-day-the-ear

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

  27. 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.

    dino-world.com/the-day-the-ear

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

  28. 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.

    dino-world.com/the-day-the-ear

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

  29. 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.

    dino-world.com/the-day-the-ear

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

  30. 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.

    dino-world.com/the-day-the-ear

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

  31. 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" doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-661

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

  32. 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" doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-661

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

  33. 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" doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-661

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

  34. 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" doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-661

  35. 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" doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-661

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

  36. Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future

    Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all life on Earth vanished. In a blink of geologic time, the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #ClimateScience #GB #Massextinction #paleoclimatology #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/694232/

  37. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

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

  38. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

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

  39. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

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

  40. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

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

  41. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

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

  42. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 independent.co.uk/news/science

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

  43. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 independent.co.uk/news/science

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

  44. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 independent.co.uk/news/science

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

  45. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 independent.co.uk/news/science

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

  46. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 independent.co.uk/news/science

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

  47. DATE: July 13, 2026 at 02:15AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: Scientists May Have Solved Mystery of Earth's Largest Mass Extinction

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

    Source: Science Daily - Top News

    Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests that the answer lies in Earth's greatest mass extinction, when warming oceans and falling oxygen levels wiped out animals that couldn't adapt. Species with body plans and metabolisms better suited to the changing conditions survived and went on to dominate the seas, offering a glimpse of how modern marine life could respond to climate change.

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #EarthsGreatestExtinction #MassExtinction #ClimateChangeImpact #OxygenDecline #WarmingOceans #MarineEvolution #ClamsSnailsShells #Paleoecology #AncientSeas #BiodiversityResilience

  48. DATE: July 13, 2026 at 02:15AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: Scientists May Have Solved Mystery of Earth's Largest Mass Extinction

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

    Source: Science Daily - Top News

    Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests that the answer lies in Earth's greatest mass extinction, when warming oceans and falling oxygen levels wiped out animals that couldn't adapt. Species with body plans and metabolisms better suited to the changing conditions survived and went on to dominate the seas, offering a glimpse of how modern marine life could respond to climate change.

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #EarthsGreatestExtinction #MassExtinction #ClimateChangeImpact #OxygenDecline #WarmingOceans #MarineEvolution #ClamsSnailsShells #Paleoecology #AncientSeas #BiodiversityResilience