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How life on Earth almost ended once

Life on Earth has never been so close to an end as during the environmental catastrophe that marked the Permian-Triassic boundary - 252 million years ago. Scientists have long speculated what could have triggered the sudden disappearance of so many organism groups - more than... click to read more

Hana Jurikova | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

climate change

Mass extinction

large igneous province volcanism

carbon cycle perturbations

ocean acidification and warming

Reading time 4 min

published on Jun 21, 2021

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