#Via Noah Shachtman
@noahshachtman
12:52 PM · Aug 12, 2026

"i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this."

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports

Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

^{Ed Pilkington (The Guardian)}

#OceanWarming #ClimateChange

*Earth's Biggest Mass Extinction Reveals Chilling Parallels to Today's World*

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#Via #JessCockerill / #Nature

sciencealert.com/earths-bigges…

"...the findings paint a pretty clear picture.

"The bad news is, 👉we are on track for #Permian-#Triassic levels of warming in worst-case scenario projections👈,"

says #Stanford #EarthScientist #ErikSperling.

"But the good news is,...

cc @kim_harding

Earth's Biggest Mass Extinction Reveals Chilling Parallels to Today's World : ScienceAlert

For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, slow-living creatures such as clam-like brachiopods and crinoid sea lilies dominated seafloor ecosystems.

^{Jess Cockerill (ScienceAlert)}