Experts are warning that life on Earth as we know it, will die out in the future, and will look like the Upper Geyser Basin region in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming State. The death of all living species will begin to happen once the Sun grows older and hotter. This is according to research findings, which were released at the National Astronomy conference in Scotland, at the University of St. Andrews.
Mainly, the reason why life forms will be die off is because they will not have much carbon dioxide to work with, claims the study. Soaring temperatures will generate larger amounts of evaporation, leaving the rainwater to respond by lowering the amount of carbon dioxide to such a level that plant life will be no more. If the claim from the report does become a reality, this would be the end for humans and animals alike.
“When we think about what to look for in the search for life beyond Earth our thoughts are largely constrained by life as we know it today, which leaves behind tell-tale fingerprints in our atmosphere like oxygen and ozone,”astrobiologist Jack O’Malley-James, a researcher at St Andrews said.
“Life in the Earth’s far future will be very different to this, which means, to detect life like this on other planets we need to search for a whole new set of clues,” he said and then continued on, “We have now simulated a dying biosphere composed of populations of the species that are most likely to survive to determine what types of gases they would release to the atmosphere. By the point at which all life disappears from the planet, we’re left with a nitrogen/carbon-dioxide atmosphere with methane being the only sign of active life.”
Voice of Russia, Metro.co.uk