In a study published in April in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, group names methane-celled organism, Methanosarcina, as one of the main culprits for the Permian extinction.
Scientists believe that the surge of these gases warm the planet and made it more acidic oceans, which together ultimately repaid most of his life.
At the end of the Permian period, about 252 million years ago, the animals began to die very quickly. Only 20,000 years, 90 percent of all species on the planet are extinct. Researchers have tried to understand why it happened.
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Adam C
"I am skeptical when you want to change an entire ocean's chemistry in less than tens of thousands of years"
I don't think anyone's suggested that. The problem is a change in the acidity of the surface layer of the ocean, at a pace too rapid for it to be dispersed into the deep ocean.
Edgod1
If nickel threw the balance out, imagine what would happen if large amounts of silver went into the oceans, silver having antibiotic properties.
Thatguy
Natural barriers don't really exist anymore. So many invasive animals and plants are wreaking havoc around the world because of global travel. Over-fishing as well as the amount of resources 7+ billion people use up yearly isn't helping matters much either.
