Sentences with phrase «great extinction events»

The scale of mankind's impact on the globe is becoming more and more apparent: We have achieved a species extinction rate to rival great extinction events of all geologic time as well as a rapidly acidifying ocean, dwindling ice caps, and even sinking river deltas, a new study from scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals.

«During great extinction events, almost every species will suffer,» said author and paleontologist Geerat Vermeij, a professor with the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

«This is further evidence we are well on our way to the next great extinction event,» said Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, the director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia and a co-author of the report.

Thanks to the Anthropocene, the world is now in the middle of «its sixth great extinction event, with rates of species loss growing rapidly for both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

The quantity and concentration of highly varied limestone formations is extraordinary in a global context, whilst the superbly exposed geology provides an insight into the recovery of marine life in the Triassic period, after the greatest extinction event recorded in the history of life on Earth.

Without that a great extinction event is completely inevitable.

I our case, our massive transfer of carbon from lithosphere to atmosphere (the HCV) creates enough warming to trigger the greater release of methane (i.e. the Clathrate Gun), much as happened during the great extinction event of the PETM.