Episode 127: A Winter of Extinction

<p>This episode explores new research, which has found that the world's largest mass extinction may have begun with volcanic winter.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/2537/a-winter-of-extinction/'>here</a>.   </p> <p>Read the scientific study that inspired it <a href='https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh1390'>here</a>.</p> <p>Read ‘For a Coming Extinction’ by W. S. Merwin <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57936/for-a-coming-extinction-56d23be1c33a8'>here</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>---</p> <p>Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:</p> <p>Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a>  </p> <p> </p>