In “Extinction’s toll could rival climate change,” scientists at McGill University in Canada point out that extinctions create holes in the fabric of the biosphere. The shredding lace of biodiversity “has the potential to affect plant production just as much as global warming and pollution.” What’s causing extinctions? We are.
May 7, 2012
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In “1859s “Great Auroral Storm”—the week the Sun touched the earth,” Matthew Lasar writes an evocative history of a past ‘wild card’ event – 1859’s massive solar flare that created auroral storms visible over much of the Earth. If you want a future projection of this scenario, you have no farther …