Ancient warming episode withered Earth's forests — and today's change is 10x faster

Scientists have found that a rapid ancient global warming episode dramatically altered Earth's forests millions of years ago, reshaping their composition and extent. Human-driven climate change is now occurring ten times faster than that natural event. Researchers warn that forests may not have enough time to adapt to such an accelerated environmental transformation.

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