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Paleontologists Reconstruct 56-Million-Year-Old Forests – and Find a Chilling Warning for Today


A study finds that during the PETM, Earth's landscapes became widely browner amid elevated atmospheric CO2, global warming, and reduced rainfall caused by volcanically driven carbon release, with trees playing a central role in these dramatic changes.

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