As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Why Did The 'Great Dying' Last for Five Million Years? Science May Finally Have The Answer The Great Dying has remained a ...

Some 250 million years ago, back when the world was still comprised of the single, supercontinent Pangea, a geologic catastrophe wiped out nearly every single ocean-dwelling creature on the planet ...

The “Great Dying” was just as bad as it sounds. In the planet’s worst mass extinction 252 million years ago, up to 80 percent of all species died out, including up to 96 percent of ocean ...

"The Great Dying" redux? Shocking parallels between ancient mass extinction and climate change Between 150 and 200 species are going extinct daily, a pace 1,000 times greater than the "natural" rate ...

The Great Dying extinction event is unique “because it’s the only one in which the plants all die off,” said Benjamin Mills, a study author and a professor of Earth system evolution at the ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction event, known as the Great Dying, killed 96 percent of all marine species and 73 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species.

About 250 million years ago, global warming killed over 95% of the world's marine species in a tragedy now known as "The Great Dying." In many ways, though, this was an inevitable cataclysm. It ...

Scientists who revealed cause of 'great dying' mass extinction call for action to halt climate change. Exclusive: 'There is no way we can pull the heat out the ocean' ...