WELCOME TO THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Traditional Cache
WELCOME TO THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
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All animals and plants will vanish from the Earth within the next billion years, a new study suggests.
Ironically, Armageddon is going to arrive as a result of too little, rather than too much, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Currently experts are trying to find ways to cut levels of the greenhouse gas to prevent global warming running out of control.
As the Sun heats up, much of the Earth will come to resemble the Upper Geyser Basin region in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA, scientists believe scientists believe. All animals and plants will vanish from the Earth within the next billion years, a new study suggests
But as the Sun ages and grows hotter, greater evaporation and chemical reactions with rainwater will take away more and more carbon dioxide.
In less than a billion years, its levels will be too low for photosynthesising plants to survive, say scientists. When that happens, life as we know it on Earth will cease to exist.
With the loss of plants, herbivorous animals will also die out, as well as the carnivores that prey on them.
Eventually microbes will be all that remains - and for the majority of them even their days will be numbered.
After another billion years, the oceans will have dried out completely leaving only the hardiest bugs.
‘The far-future Earth will be very hostile to life by this point,’
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