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  2. List of extinction events - Wikipedia

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    End-Capitanian extinction event: 260 Ma: Volcanism from the Emeishan Traps, [28] resulting in global cooling and other effects Olson's Extinction: 270 Ma Unknown. [29] [30] [31] Possibly a change in climate, but evidence for this is weak. [32] This event may actually be a slow decline over 20 Ma. [33] Carboniferous: Carboniferous rainforest ...

  3. Future of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The ablation and vaporization caused by Earth's fall on a decaying trajectory towards the Sun may remove Earth's mantle, leaving just the core, which will finally be destroyed after at most 200 years. [102] [103] Earth's sole legacy will be a very slight increase (0.01%) of the solar metallicity following this event. [104]: IIC

  4. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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    Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for this year. [49] Fifth Monarchists: The presence of 666 in the date, the death of 100,000 Londoners to bubonic plague, and the Great Fire of London led to superstitious fears of the end of the world from some Christians. [59] [60] 1673 William Aspinwall

  5. Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - Wikipedia

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    VHEMT was founded in 1991 by Les U. Knight, an American activist who became involved in the American environmental movement in the 1970s and thereafter concluded that human extinction was the best solution to the problems facing the Earth's biosphere and humanity. Knight publishes the group's newsletter and serves as its spokesman.

  6. Late Ordovician mass extinction - Wikipedia

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    Brachiopod survivors of the mass extinction tended to be endemic to one palaeoplate or even one locality in the survival interval in the earliest Silurian, though their ranges geographically expanded over the course of the biotic recovery. [30] The region around what is today Oslo was a hotbed of atrypide rediversification. [31]

  7. Human extinction - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear war is an often-predicted cause of the extinction of humankind. [1]Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction), for example by sub-replacement fertility.

  8. The “Interstellar” Ending Explained, 10 Years Later: What ...

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    The “Interstellar” Ending Explained, 10 Years Later: What Happened to Earth After Murph Solved the Equation — and Where Did Cooper Go Next? Erica Marrison November 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM

  9. Extinction event - Wikipedia

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    When the Sun becomes 10% brighter in about a billion years, [192] Earth will suffer a moist greenhouse effect resulting in its oceans boiling away, while the Earth's liquid outer core cools due to the inner core's expansion and causes the Earth's magnetic field to shut down. In the absence of a magnetic field, charged particles from the Sun ...