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第23期:全球性巨灾

On the other side of the continent Gondwana, nothing's changed, yet. It appears to be snowing, but the temperature is about 70 degrees.

It's actually ash, fallout from the eruptions some 10,000 miles away. The ash burns and suffocates the animals, killing them around the world.

Sulphur dioxide from the eruptions fills the atmosphere. As it rains, the gas turns to sulphuric acid, and burns everything it falls on.

What was a local disaster has now turned global. The Siberian eruptions increase the Earth's carbon dioxide levels.

The atmosphere gets hotter. Water evaporates. And vegetation dies. Around the world, life on land is being wiped out.

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