Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ago, contributing to ...

A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...

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Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...

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Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating than the one ...

The prevailing theory has been that volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps released massive amounts of carbon dioxide.

The Great Dying at the end of the Permian Period 250 million years ago may have been amplified by El Niño events far stronger and longer lasting than any today. These mega El Niños caused wild ...