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

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ rocketed, and ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

New fossil evidence has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during the Earth’s most devastating extinction event ...

Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

A new international study led by the University of Leeds and the China University of Geosciences has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s worst extinction event (about 252 ...