Earth’s forests took 100,000 years to recover from the last climate shock — this one is moving 10 times faster

A new study in Science reveals that during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 56 million years ago, Wyoming forests lost 60% of their canopy and took over 100,000 years to recover. Scientists warn that today's human-driven warming is occurring roughly 10 times faster than that natural event.

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