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Endangered Species
What Ancient Mass Extinctions Tell Us about the Future
Carbon dioxide has done plenty of damage before
Peter Brannen is a science journalist whose book The Ends of the World is about the five major mass extinctions (Ecco, 2017). Brannen was a 2018–2019 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. Credit: Nick Higgins
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