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If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days.
A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years.
But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
A global warning system can forecast when vertebrates may face unprecedented heat up to nine months ahead. Many regions would have seen alerts months before peak exposure. doi.org/hb66t5
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An international group of scientists led by Josep M. Serra-Diaz, researcher at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB, CSIC-MCNB), has developed the first global early warning system capable of forecasting when and where vertebrate species will be exposed to unprecedented heat up to nine months in advance.
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