The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

Peter Brannen with Adam Verner (Narrator)

9 hours, 58 minutes first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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The reader who loves to travel through deep time with a science-journalist guide, relishing vivid field stories, fossil forensics, and the sobering link between ancient catastrophes and humanity’s future, will find this book irresistible.

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As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinct...

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