The Ends of the World Volcanic Apocalypses Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth Past Mass Extinctions 1st Edition by Peter Brannen 0062364820 9780062364821

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ISBN 10: 0062364820
ISBN 13: 9780062364821
Author: Peter Brannen

One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the Decade New York Times Editors’ Choice 2017 Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017 As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet’s history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet’s five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five extinctions. Using the visible clues these devastations have left behind in the fossil record, The Ends of the World takes us inside “scenes of the crime,” from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell the story of each extinction. Brannen examines the fossil record—which is rife with creatures like dragonflies the size of sea gulls and guillotine-mouthed fish—and introduces us to the researchers on the front lines who, using the forensic tools of modern science, are piecing together what really happened at the crime scenes of the Earth’s biggest whodunits. Part road trip, part history, and part cautionary tale, The Ends of the World takes us on a tour of the ways that our planet has clawed itself back from the grave, and casts our future in a completely new light.

The Ends of the World Volcanic Apocalypses Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth Past Mass Extinctions 1st Table of contents:

1.   Beginnings

2.   The End-Ordovician Mass Extinction

3.   The Late Devonian Mass Extinction

4.   The End-Permian Mass Extinction

5.   The End-Triassic Mass Extinction

6.   The End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

7.   The End-Pleistocene Mass Extinction

8.   The Near Future

9.   The Last Extinction

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