The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and effects of the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years, when Arctic sea surfaces reached up to 23 C ...

Fifty-five million years ago, Earth’s thermostat shot up—and life dramatically changed. Here’s what history can teach us about our modern temperature surge.

Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a 200,000-year period of rapid carbon release and global warming that ...

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a team of researchers conducted a comprehensive study of wildfires during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in the Nanyang and ...

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is often considered a geologic analog to anthropogenic warming. Thus, the state of the oceans during the PETM could offer a prophetic glimpse of the ...

Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C over 100,000 or more years. Between 3,000 and 20,000 petagrams of carbon ...

56 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which has similarities to current ...

New insights into the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and its effects on ocean acidification illustrate parallels with human-driven global warming.

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a global warming event that occurred about 56 million years ago. During this time, scientists estimate about 3,000 to 7,000 gigatons of carbon ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) but the cause of the warming is still debated. Huge amounts of carbon entered into the atmosphere at the time along with methane.