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Welcome to the science podcast for September 20th, 2019. I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, science journalist Josh Sokol talks about a global cooling event sparked by space dust

that led to a huge shift in animal and plant diversity 466 million years ago.

And I talked with Kenneth Rosenberg about steep declines in bird abundance in the U.S. and Canada.

His team estimates about

three billion, that's billion with a bee, birds have gone missing since the 1970s.

Now we have Josh Sokol, a science journalist, and he's here to talk about global cooling

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