A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

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

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Further, photic zone euxinia preceded the mass extinction at the end of the Permian at least locally 9, whereas euxinia did not appear until after the T–J extinction 1.

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

Marvel fans celebrate ‘amazing’ villain debut after years of waiting ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

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

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

The Permian-Triassic extinction event is thought to have been triggered by massive volcanic activity in the region that is now Siberia, which raised CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The planet’s ...

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