Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we cross them again, the lead author of a new study writes.
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What climate changes in the distant past can tell us about the near future.
Thousands of years ago, carbon gases trapped on the seafloor escaped, causing drastic warming that helped end the last ice age. A scientist says climate change could cause this process to repeat.
This sudden, 150,000-year long temperature spike has many parallels with modern climate change.
As carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase, scientists are looking to the past.
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