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1. The ends of the world: volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions

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Brannen, Peter
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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 extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future. Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends...

2. The whole story of climate: what science reveals about the nature of endless change

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Peters, E. Kirsten
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Offers an overview of the contributions geology has made to the study of climate change and the nuanced picture it presents of a climate that has gone through constant change over the course of millennia.