This week, NAI Principal Investigator Peter Ward published a follow on to his January Science paper which described a potential cause for the extinction events on the P/T boundary: “atmospheric warming because of greenhouse gases triggered by erupting volcanoes.” This new paper, “Hypoxia, Global Warming, and Terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions,” further elucidates this story; its focus is on characterizing environmental degradation approaching and succeeding the “final catastrophe.”