Climate change could potentially have the same impact as an asteroid impact that slammed into the Earth more than 60 million years ago.
Human-caused climate change such as air pollution, rising sea levels and habitat loss could trigger mass extinctions once more, they said in a new study. Co-author Research Associate Dr Andrew Fraass (Corr) from the University of Bristol said: ‘From this study, it’s reasonable to infer that it’s going to take an extremely long time – millions of years – to recover from the extinction that we’re causing through climate change and other methods.’
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Human-caused climate change such as air pollution, rising sea levels and habitat loss could trigger mass extinctions once more, they said in a new study. Co-author Research Associate Dr Andrew Fraass (Corr) from the University of Bristol said: ‘From this study, it’s reasonable to infer that it’s going to take an extremely long time – millions of years – to recover from the extinction that we’re causing through climate change and other methods.’
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