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- Ancient poop reveals ‘extinction event’ in human gut bacteria https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/piles-ancient-poop-reveal-extinction-event-human-gut-bacteria 16 comments
- Silicon Valley Bank’s failure is an extinction-level event for startups, says Y Combinator’s Garry Tan https://www.marketwatch.com/story/y-combinators-garry-tan-calls-svb-closure-an-extinction-level-event-for-startups-3a052d4 16 comments technology
- Silicon Valley Bank’s failure is an extinction-level event for startups, says Y Combinator’s Garry Tan https://www.marketwatch.com/story/y-combinators-garry-tan-calls-svb-closure-an-extinction-level-event-for-startups-3a052d4?link=sfmw_fb 28 comments technology
- NASA scientist warns Earth is due for an extinction-level event https://www.airsassociation.org/services-new/airs-knowledge-network-n/airs-articles/item/17325-nasa-scientist-warns-earth-is-due-for-an-extinction-level-event 42 comments worldnews
- NASA scientist warns Earth is due for 'extinction-level' event http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/12/14/nasa-scientist-warns-earth-is-due-for-extinction-level-event.html 31 comments worldnews
- Fukushima: The Extinction-Level Event That No One Is Talking About http://www.anonews.co/fukushima-extinction-level/ 29 comments worldnews
- Democrats watch and plot as ‘extinction-level event’ rocks the Trump campaign https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/08/clinton-plans-to-address-trumps-lewd-comments-near-start-of-st-louis-debate/ 163 comments politics
- Democrats watch and plot as ‘extinction-level event’ rocks the Trump campaign https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/08/clinton-plans-to-address-trumps-lewd-comments-near-start-of-st-louis-debate/?tid=sm_tw 65 comments politics
- AIG’s collapse: Described as an extinction-level event. Isn’t the antitrust act supposed to stop corporations from getting so big that their death can kill the system? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16lewitt.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all 140 comments business
- 9 Examples of Apocalyptic Extinction-Level Events http://www.greenoverrun.com/9-examples-of-apocalyptic-extinction-level-events.html 8 comments science
- Geobiologists shine new light on Earth’s first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago - A new study traces the cause of the first known mass extinction to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present near the end of the Ediacaran Period https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/11/science-ediacaran_first_mass_extinction_event_scott_evans.html 16 comments science
- We can't stop our planet's next mass extinction event, researchers say https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/we-can-t-stop-our-planet-s-next-mass-extinction-event-researchers-say-1.5746554 120 comments environment
- A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzqg5/a-warning-sign-of-a-mass-extinction-event-is-on-the-rise-scientists-say 142 comments futurology
- Evolution after the Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Rapid Response of Life to the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction Event. https://www.geosociety.org/gsa/news/pr/2020/20-22.aspx 3 comments science
- The man helping protect against 'extinction event' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-53082475 6 comments space
- Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years ago, that killed much of the Earth's plant and freshwater aquatic life, was caused by a brief breakdown of the ozone layer that shields the Earth from damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/uos-sse052620.php 598 comments science
- Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to a new study, it was all about the asteroid. https://news.yale.edu/2020/01/16/death-dinosaurs-it-was-all-about-asteroid-not-volcanoes 4 comments science
- Researchers unearth 'new' extinction | Scientists have concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago, raising the total of major mass extinctions in the geologic record to six https://phys.org/news/2019-09-unearth-extinction.html 14 comments worldnews
- 'Completely Terrifying': Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/09/completely-terrifying-study-warns-carbon-saturated-oceans-headed-toward-tipping 2874 comments worldnews
- 'Mass extinction event' that could wipe out a million species is already underway, says UN-backed report https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/06/mass-extinction-event-could-wipe-million-species-already-underway/ 574 comments worldnews
- A meteor impact 66 million years ago generated a tsunami-like wave in an inland sea that buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction event. The death scene from within an hour of the impact has been excavated at a fossil site in North Dakota. https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to-dinosaur-killing-meteor/?t=au 1636 comments science
- Rapid global warming caused largest extinction event in Earth’s history, which wiped out vast majority of marine and terrestrial animals on planet, scientists have found...mass extinction, known as “great dying”, occurred around 252m years ago and marked end of Permian geologic period. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/06/global-warming-extinction-report-the-great-dying 41 comments worldnews
- The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction (444 MYA), the second largest mass extinction in Earth's history, was caused by a sudden anoxic event in the world's oceans that lasted for at least 1 million years. It was driven by global cooling which reorganized the world's thermohaline circulation. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/15/1802438115 3 comments science
- Why were the avian dinosaurs the only dinosaurian survivors of the K-Pg extinction event? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7oo9ww/why_were_the_avian_dinosaurs_the_only_dinosaurian/ 5 comments askscience
- A sixth mass extinction event could reach the tipping point by 2100. Study analyzes changes in carbon cycle leading up to the 5 main extinction events – as well as dozens of smaller ones – and found that the end of this century could mark the tipping point for a 6th mass extinction event. http://newatlas.com/sixth-mass-extinction-carbon-cycle/51439/ 13 comments science
- Earth's sixth mass extinction event already under way, scientists warn | Environment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn 563 comments worldnews
- TIL about the Shiva Crater which is hypothesized to be one of the reasons for massive extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_crater 16 comments india
- Two subsequent extinction events following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction likely delayed global ecosystem recovery by millions of years https://news.utexas.edu/2017/03/15/recovery-after-great-dying-was-slowed-by-more-extinctions 3 comments science
- Earth's largest mass extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, was the result of a short-lived ice age initiated by the onset of the Siberian Traps volcanism that released sulfur-rich volatiles into the stratosphere, study finds. https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.ca/2017/03/permian-triassic-extinction-event.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed:+thearchaeologynewsnetwork+(the+archaeology+news+network) 17 comments science
- Researchers warn of approaching ‘major extinction event’ if action is not taken to protect around 300 species of wild primate, including gorillas, chimps, lemurs and lorises https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/18/over-half-of-worlds-wild-primate-species-face-extinction-report-reveals 3 comments science
- A study of more than 6,000 marine fossils from the Antarctic shows that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs was sudden and just as deadly to life in the polar regions http://phys.org/news/2016-05-antarctic-fossils-reveal-creatures-werent.html 15 comments science
- You’re More Likely to Die in a Human Extinction Event Than a Car Crash http://thetodayevents.com/human-extinction-isnt-unlikely/ 8 comments technology
- A new theory suggests most of Earth’s mass extinction events could have been caused by a lack of essential trace elements in the world’s oceans, causing fatal deficiencies in marine animals, from plankton to reptiles. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28448-most-of-earths-mass-extinctions-caused-by-mineral-deficiencies/ 9 comments science
- Disc dark matter in the Galaxy and potential cycles of extraterrestrial impacts, mass extinctions and geological events http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/448/2/1816 6 comments science
- Biologist warn of early stages of Earth's sixth mass extinction event http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724171956.htm 1711 comments science
- Mass extinction may not cause all organisms to 'shrink': The sizes of organisms following mass extinction events may vary more than previously thought, which may be inconsistent with the predictions of the so-called 'Lilliput effect,' according to a study http://phys.org/news/2014-02-mass-extinction.html 6 comments science
- Bees underwent massive extinction when dinosaurs did: For the first time ever, scientists have documented a widespread extinction of bees that occurred 65 million years ago, concurrent with the massive event that wiped out land dinosaurs and many flowering plants http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2013/10/bp24bees.cfm 765 comments science
- A huge comet is headed for Mars. If it hits, "it would be an event on the same sort of scale as the impact that drove the dinosaurs extinct 65m years ago. " http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/02/comet-headed-mars 2064 comments worldnews
- New report warns that the oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years...: "This is further evidence we are well on our way to the next great extinction event." http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/04/96966/report-oceans-deteriorating-health.html 55 comments science
- [IMAGE] The "End of the World" as we know it: This fascinating chart details the time-line of complete disappearance of any trace of human civilization from Earth, in case of an "extinction event": asteroid strike, or all-out nuclear war. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/316941771_f26354c519_o.jpg 12 comments reddit.com
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