Global heating risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250m years

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New research warns pressures of rising heat and loss of oxygen reminiscent of ‘great dying’ that occurred about 250m years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/global-warming-risks-cataclysmic-mass-extinction-marine-life

Boats sailing among the Marmara sea covered with sea snot, a jelly-like layer of slime that develops on the surface of the water due to the excessive proliferation of phytoplankton, gravely threatening the marine biome, in the Darica district of Kocaeli, Turkey.
Boats sailing among the Marmara sea covered with sea snot that develops on the surface of the water due to the excessive proliferation of phytoplankton, gravely threatening the marine biome, in the Darica district of Kocaeli, Turkey.Photograph: Yasin Akgül/AFP/Getty Images

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Oliver Milman

@olliemilmanThu 28 Apr 2022 14.00 EDT

Global heating is causing such a drastic change to the world’s oceans that it risks a mass extinction event of marine species that rivals anything that’s happened in the Earth’s history over tens of millions of years, new research has warned.

Accelerating climate change is causing a “profound” impact upon ocean ecosystems that is “driving extinction risk higher and marine biological richness lower than has been seen…

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