Ten Great Ideas: Mass Extinctions
Human DNA shows we almost went extinct. Studies vary; 15K population 70K yrs ago, to 2K population about 150K years ago. |
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| Help to support the highlighting of the extinction crisis | Link | Add a #Twibbon now to your twitter profile pic | |
| DOOMSDAY CLOCK Moves Up To 11:57 | Link | "current efforts are entirely insufficient" on Catastrophic Warming | |
| Noam Chomsky: The Doomsday Clock Is Nearing Midnight | Link | An essay excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? | |
Earth Story – episode 1 |
Famous documentary, narrated by Aubrey Manning. YouTube. 1 hour. If the link is down then just search again |
5 Star | |
| The Animal Extinction Song ft. Veritasium, Vsauce2, DNews & More! - Earth Unplugged #EarthDay | Link | YouTube 2 mins | |
How humans won the battle for planet earth |
YouTube 1 hour | 5 Star | |
| What would happen everything on Earth if just the humans disappeared? | YouTube 5 mins from National Geographic | 4 Star | |
| This one from BBC Earth Unplugged | Link | YouTube 4 mins. But she seems so nice | |
| Mass extinctions | |||
| The 6 Craziest Extinctions Ever | Link | ASAP Science Youtube. 4 mins. | |
| Mass Extinctions | Link | This time from SciShow Youtube. 10 mins. | |
| The Permian Mass Extinction | |||
| Wiped out 95 % of existing species | Youtube. 10 mins. | 4 Star | |
| The day the Earth nearly died | Youtube. 1 hour on the Permian mass extinction | 4 Star | |
| Also known as "The Great Dying" | Youtube. 7 mins. | ||
| Wonderful short teaser on the Cambrian Explosion | 30 seconds - with narration from our own Liam Neeson | 5 Star | |
| We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction | |||
Right now, we are in the midst of what’s been called the “Sixth Great Extinction". |
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| My money is on methane being the reason - I don't expect to be in a postion to collect | |||
| When will the next mass extinction occur? | Link | YouTube 5 mins from TED-ED | |
| "We're witnessing a faster pace of extinction than we have seen since the dinosaurs went extinct," | Link | abc7news.com | |
| LAST HOURS for Humanity? | Youtube. 10 mins. The problem may be the gas under your feet |
5 Stars | |
| COP20: Global Arctic Methane Emergency "Arctic Ice Could Be Melted By Sept. 2015...Then All Hell Will Let Loose." |
First press briefing of the Arctic Emergency Methane Group(AMEG) held on Dec. 4, 2014 at the 20th annual Conference of the Parties (COP 20) for the United Nation's Framework ConvenYouTube. 4 mins tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Lima, Peru. | ||
Short introduction |
3 min video from howstuffworks. | 4 Star | |
| The extinction crisis - overview | Text-based, from biodiversity.org | ||
| The Sixth Mass Extinction | Youtube. 10 mins. Narrated by Liam Neeson | 4 Star | |
| Earth’s sixth mass extinction has begun, new study confirms | Link | Text-based, from theconversation.com | |
| The Sixth Mass Extinction: We Aren’t The Dinosaurs, We’re The Asteroid | Link | Text-based from thedailybeast.com | |
| 6th mass extinction? Jarring stats on wildlife today | Link | Text-based but with lots of infographics | |
| Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF | Text-based from theguardian.com | ||
| World wildlife populations have halved in 40 years | Link | Text-based news report from BBC.com | |
| It's called the Anthropocene — a new geological era triggered by human industry | ucobserver.org | ||
| Earth has exceeded four of the nine limits for hospitable life | Link | Text-based from independent.co.uk | |
| The 9 limits of our planet … and how we’ve raced past 4 of them | Link | Text-based from ideas.ted.com/ | |
| The Great North American Megadrought | Link | Youtube. 10 mins. Hit America in the Middle Ages. Why couldn't it happen again? | |
| A dodo's guide to extinction | Courtesy of Dara O Brian's ScienceClub. YouTube. 4 mins | 4 Star | |
Fen Montaigne discusses how global warming has caused a decline in the number of Adélie penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula. |
Short video, from newyorker.com | 5 Star | |
| Slideshow of just a handful of animals which have gone extinct recently | Youtube. 4 mins | 5 Star | |
| Extinct "and soon to become extinct" species | Youtube. 2 mins | 5 Star | |
| The Last of Us: True tales of how various species went extinct | Link | Text based | |
| Salt-Water Fish Extinction By 2048 | Text-based from cbsnews.com. It's so much easier to pretend this just can't be true. | ||
| The 'rarest of the rare'; animals on the edge of extinction | Text-based from National Geographic | 4 Star | |
| Interactive summary from PBS.org | Includes references to Geological and First Life | 4 Star | |
| "Go back. We f#%ked" up everything" | Twitterpic | ||
| George Carlin's 'Saving The Planet | Link | Youtube. 8 mins | |
| Earth's mass extinctions - caused by bacteria? | Fascinating hypothesis from Peter Ward on TED. YouTube 21 mins | ||
| Biodiversity and extinctions | |||
| Biodiversity -what is it and why we need it | 6 minute video. It's not all good news | 5 Star | |
| Ask most scientists and they’ll tell you that the current crisis that scares them most is the biodiversity crisis. | text-based from forbes.com | ||
| Human Population Growth and Wildlife Extinction | Youtube. 2 mins | ||
| Overview of an exhibition on Extinction from the Natural History Museum in London | From BBC.com. Click on the embedded video. 5 mins
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4 Star | |