On this week’s show, science journalist Josh Sokol talks about a global cooling event sparked by space dust that lead to a huge shift in animal and plant diversity 466 million years ago. (Read the related research article in Science Advances.)
And I talk with Kenneth Rosenberg, an applied conservation scientist at Cornell University, about steep declines in bird abundance in the United States and Canada. His team estimates about 3 billion birds have gone missing since the 1970s.
This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.
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Cooling Earth with asteroid dust, and 3 billion missing birds | Science Magazine Podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
