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Egyptian fossil surprise: Fishes thrived in tropics in ancient warm period, despite high ocean temps

Posted: 25 May 2021 07:17 AM PDT

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, was a short interval of highly elevated global temperatures 56 million years ago that is frequently described as the best ancient analog for present-day climate warming.

Pre-Columbus climate change may have caused Amazon population decline

Posted: 24 May 2021 08:02 AM PDT

Diseases carried to the Amazon by European settlers after 1492 are thought to have brought about the 'Great Dying', but new research suggests climate change may already have been affecting indigenous populations before this.