MJ Muse<p>The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why. Siberian Traps, which released huge amounts of carbon and other planet-heating gases into the atmosphere, causing intense global warming. Enormous numbers of marine and land-based plants and animals died, ecosystems collapsed and oceans acidified. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ExtinctionCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtinctionCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateScience</span></a><br><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/great-dying-wiped-90-life-090025845.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/great-dying-wip</span><span class="invisible">ed-90-life-090025845.html</span></a></p>
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Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
"Over the past decade, more than 550 Australian species have been either newly recognised as at risk of extinction or moved a step closer to being erased from the planet."
"Analysis shows 1,964,200 hectares of koala habitat was cleared between 2012 and 2021 – 81% of that in Queensland."
"Australia tops global rankings for mammal extinction – at least 33 species have died out since European invasion and colonisation – and is number two behind Indonesia for loss of biodiversity. The challenge is not only to stop the loss of habitat but to restore the environment in places it has been lost in 250 years of European-driven clearing."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/australia-is-in-an-extinction-crisis-why-isnt-it-an-issue-at-this-election
#biodiversity #ecosystems #loss #nature #wildlife #koalas #care #biosphere #laws #deforestation #extractivism #SettlerSociety #destruction #extinction #pollution #sprawl #housing #governance #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels
The Guardian · Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
#Australia is in an #ExtinctionCrisis – why isn’t it an issue at this #election? | Australian election 2025 | The Guardian
The Guardian · Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
we are living through an #ExtinctionCrisis unlike anything in human history—over a million #species are at risk of disappearing in the coming decades. #ecosystems that have taken millions of years to evolve are unravelling before our eyes, driven by #HabitatDestruction, #climate chaos, #pollution, and endless #extraction. every species lost is a thread pulled from the web of life, and sooner or later, that web collapses.
Brilliant cartoon by @schloriancartoon
Hot frogs and sizzling salamanders: #ClimateChange is pushing amphibians to their limits https://theconversation.com/hot-frogs-and-sizzling-salamanders-climate-change-is-pushing-amphibians-to-their-limits-250653
The ConversationHot frogs and sizzling salamanders: climate change is pushing amphibians to their limitsNew research shows frogs and other amphibians are already on the brink of overheating in a warming world. Here’s how many will suffer as global temperatures rise.
Please consider reading and signing this 
petition for radical reform of the UN 
, or boosting if you have already signed it.
The petition is relevant to crises such as: #RussianinvasionofUkraine
#israelipalestinianconflict
#Climatechange
#ExtinctionCrisis
The petition proposes to break the status quo at the UN, abolishing the vetoes and permanent seats in the “Security” Council.
The petition is a little longer than average, but, I believe, quite readable!
Change.orgSign the PetitionURGENTLY reform the UN, whose 80-year status quo has pushed the WORLD into CRISIS!!
**HERE'S A REAL MEGA POPULAR MUZWOT ETHOS POST ...
"Going anywhere nice this summer?"
It just isn't right at all any longer, it isn't fair and it is grossly selfish and totally irresponsible, irrespective of the ton of glossy ads that try to normalize it still.
Jetting off around the globe for holidays in the age of #ExtinctionCrisis and #climatecatastrophe has LONG Had Its Day and it is something now disgusting, deeply vulgar and shameful
- it is no longer glamorous WHATSOEVER.
#heathrow
Provide habitat and fund wildlife hospitals!
"The WA Wildlife Hospital has seen a 17 per cent year-on-year increase in patient admissions over the past 15 years."
Reasons?
"These include increasing urban sprawl, with suburbs encroaching on natural habitats as the population grows, and attacks from introduced predators such as wandering cats, foxes and dogs."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/wa-wildlife-hospital-buckling-under-surging-animal-admissions/104923496
#Biodiversity #wildlife #birds #carers #sprawl #FishingHooks #roads #drivers #IntroducedSpecies #pets #dogs #ExtinctionCrisis #SettlerSociety
ABC News · Record admissions to WA Wildlife Hospital trigger fears it may have to send animals elsewhere
“You can stand on coast right now anywhere in Chennai and every few strides, you can see bulge-eyed turtles till the horizon.Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India."
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/01/over-1100-dead-olive-ridley-turtles-wash-ashore-in-southern-india/
#marine #turtles #biodiversity #FishingIndustry #fishing #ExtinctionCrisis
Mongabay Environmental News · Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern IndiaMore than 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India this month. Most were found near the state capital, Chennai. “I never heard [of] such large numbers of turtles stranded at any beaches of Tamil Nadu at least in the last three decades,” K. Sivakumar, […]