A collection of some 830 letters written by members of two related families, the Moores and Hughes, who resided in Derry and Baltimore, has been acquired by Trinity College Dublin. On Wednesday 10th May at the Trinity Long Room Hub, this valuable correspondence was the subject of a discussion organised by the School of Histories and Humanities in association with the Library of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Galway, and the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Around 252 million years ago, a massive volcanic eruption spewed 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. This heated the planet and acidified the oceans, wiping out 95 percent of marine life in an extinction event that has come to be known as the Great Dying. Scientists warn that the same thing could happen to the world’s oceans again if we don’t act to control the climate crisis.