{"id":6747,"date":"2023-08-18T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2023-08-18T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:35:09","slug":"a-changing-climate-a-growing-human-population-and-widespread-fires-contributed-to-the-last-great-extinction-we-can-prevent-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/08\/18\/a-changing-climate-a-growing-human-population-and-widespread-fires-contributed-to-the-last-great-extinction-we-can-prevent-the-next-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A changing climate, growing human population and large-scale wildfires contributed to the last great extinction - can we prevent the next one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Over the past decade, deadly fires have become increasingly common as a result\u00a0<\/span><span>human-caused climate change<\/span><span>\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span><span>disruptive land management practices<\/span><span>\u00a0. Southern California, where the three of us live and work, was\u00a0<\/span><span>hit particularly hard<\/span><span> .\u00a0<\/span><span>Southern California also experienced a wave of forest fires 13,000 years ago. These fires permanently changed the vegetation of the region and\u00a0<\/span><span>contributed to Earth&#039;s greatest extinction<\/span><span> in more than 60 million years. <\/span><span>How\u00a0 <\/span><span>paleontologists <\/span><span>we have<\/span><span>\u00a0special\u00a0<\/span><span>view<\/span><span>\u00a0on the long-term causes and consequences of environmental changes, both those associated with natural climate fluctuations and those caused by humans. ( <em>Emily Lindsey, University of California, Los Angeles, Lisa N. Martinez, University of California, Los Angeles, Regan E. Dunn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly wildfires have become increasingly common over the past decade due to human-caused climate change and disruptive land management practices. Southern California, where all three of us live and work, has been hit particularly hard. Southern California also experienced a wave of wildfires 13,000 years ago. These fires permanently altered the region\u2019s vegetation and contributed to Earth\u2019s largest mass extinction in more than 60 million years. [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}