Hydrogen sulphide is a nasty stuff. It's that rotten egg smell that makes us all gag. 400 parts per million will kill a human. Our noses, mammals noses, are so attuned. We're abe to detect a few parts per million hydrogen sulphide molecules because the stuff is so dangerous. And this comes up if you go hin a pocket of this old logging waste, and we have so many hydrogen sulphide comes out, it will kill you fast. The thing about hydrogen sulphide poisoning is so awful, where it kills humans, or in the gas fields and west texas and the oil fields, now weres killing people.
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earths history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs.
About Peter Ward:
Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth's natural history including On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions.
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