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Mega El Niño blamed for end-Permian mass extinction

Original: "Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction" "oh" https://www. science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc e.ado2030 edi

A study published in Science argues that a Mega El Niño pattern, producing extreme and prolonged climate swings, triggered the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago, the deadliest extinction event in Earth's history. The researchers say runaway warming destabilised ecosystems beyond what species could tolerate. The paper is being shared widely, with an open-access version of the full text available.

Why now: New research linking modern-analogue El Niño climate dynamics to the largest mass extinction resonates amid current concerns about climate change.

Science (journal)end-Permian mass extinctionEl Niño

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• "Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction" "oh" https://www. science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc e.ado2030 edit, full text no paywall: https:// eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/epr int/228131/ # climate # ElNino # extinction · inquiline@assemblag.es · 28

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