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No asteroids or volcanoes needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate

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An “overshooting” thunderstorm can inject water into the stratosphere, where it may destroy ozone. By Paul VoosenThe end of the Devonian period, 359 million years ago, was an eventful time: Fish were inching out of the ocean, and fernlike forests were advancing on land.

The world was recovering from a mass extinction 12 million years earlier, but the climate was still chaotic, swinging between hothouse conditions and freezes so deep that glaciers formed in the tropics.

And then, just as the planet was warming from one of these ice ages, another extinction struck, seemingly without reason. Now, spores from fernlike plants, preserved in ancient lake sediments from eastern Greenland, suggest a culprit: The planet’s protective ozone layer was

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