Ancient Forests Took 100,000 Years to Recover From the Last Global Warming Period Similar to Today – Wyoming Fossils Reveal What Happened
By Dr. Regan Dunn is Assistant Deputy Director & Associate Curator of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research La Brea Tar Pits and Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences at University of Southern California. Originally published at The Conversation. Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense,…