Whoops! Apocalypse! Episode no. 3,421,867

Sometimes, between reports like this and the whole bees thing and every other environmental catastrophe-in-the-making, Information Landmine gets the impression that humanity is playing a giant version of one of those children's games where objects are stacked precariously on top of one another until eventually collapsing in a heap. Only with this game, the future of life on Earth is what's at stake.

Well, as Blue Öyster Cult once sang in an appropriately sage-like fashion: "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men."

They need hardly have added the "Godzilla!" bit afterwards.