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Great Dying plant resilience offers clues on climate survival
Original: Will plants survive climate change? The 'Great Dying' reveals clues about their resilience.
Scientists are looking to the 'Great Dying', the mass extinction around 252 million years ago, to understand how plants might cope with modern climate change. The event, triggered by massive volcanic eruptions and extreme warming, devastated life on Earth, yet plant life ultimately recovered and adapted. Studying fossil records from that period may help predict which plant species can withstand today's rapidly rising temperatures.
Why now: New research connects ancient plant survival during the Permian-Triassic extinction to concerns about plant resilience under modern climate change.
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- Will plants survive climate change? The 'Great Dying' reveals clues about their resilience. · Live Science
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