A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

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

The Permian-Triassic (P-T or PT) extinction event, sometimes informally called the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred approximately 251.0 million years ago (mya), forming the ...

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

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

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

The worst came a little over 250 million years ago — before dinosaurs walked the earth — in an episode called the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction, or the Great Dying, when 90% of life in the ...

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 ...

March 6 (UPI) --New research suggests the Permian-Triassic extinction event was caused by a brief ice age, 250 million years ago.The ancient rock strata known as the Permian-Triassic boundary ...

Haijun Song and colleagues explored the mechanisms that control biodiversity patterns, focusing on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, which occurred around 252 million years ago.