Historical Climate Events

Volcanic Eruptions Mass Extinctions 8.2 ka Cooling Event Triassic Period Permian Extinction Ecosystem Collapse Glacial Activity Homeric Grand Solar Minimum 8.2ka Event Impact on Ecosystems Cretaceous Climate Cretaceous Period Little Ice Age Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum El Niño-La Niña Cycle Comet Strikes Late Antique Little Ice Age

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Ancient Warming Collapsed Wyoming Forest Canopies, Study Shows

Faster modern carbon emissions plus recent global declines in vegetation productivity raise the risk that today’s ecosystems could cross thresholds with recovery measured in tens to hundreds of thousands of years.

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Ferns Fueled Long Wildfire Pulse in End‑Triassic Europe

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Volcanic Cooling in 1345 Linked to Trade Route That Likely Brought the Black Death to Europe

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PNAS Study Dates Monumental Siloam Dam to 805–795 BCE

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Ancient Rainforest Collapse Locked Earth in a Five-Million-Year Hothouse