At the current rate of warming, the Earth's ability to absorb nearly a third of man-made carbon emissions from plants could be halved within the next two decades, according to a new study in Advances in science by researchers from Northern Arizona University, Woodwell Climate Research Center, and the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Using […]
Leaf fossils have been hit hard by the Cretaceous Extinction in southern Argentina – ScienceDaily
The asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to mass extinction and ended the dinosaurs, also killed many of the plants they relied on for food. Fossilized leaf clusters from Patagonia, Argentina suggest that vegetation in South America has suffered great losses but has recovered quickly, according to an international team of researchers. "Any […]