<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nA team of British scientists contends that, within 200 years, Earth's temperatures may become hot enough to kill off half of all existing plant and animal species. From: Nick Wadhams for National Geographic News.\r\n\r\nThe researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds in Britain base that dire possibility on a new analysis of the 520-million-year-old fossil record, which links past mass extinctions with

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A team of British scientists contends that, within 200 years, Earth’s temperatures may become hot enough to kill off half of all existing plant and animal species. From: Nick Wadhams for National Geographic News.<\/p>\n

The researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds in Britain base that dire possibility on a new analysis of the 520-million-year-old fossil record, which links past mass extinctions with cycles of high temperatures<\/a>. “We could be in the temperature zone in which mass extinctions have occurred by the end of this century, or more likely in the next century,” said Peter Mayhew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[162],"tags":[492,646,588,268,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}