A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all time.

Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions have devastated ... About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species.

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from marine life.

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 ... came to look like those from before the end-Permian collapse. But crucially, the plant species that made up the new forests were completely ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

This percentage is significantly lower than the marine extinction rate during the same period ... other regions after the end-Permian mass extinction. All of this plant life offered vital support ...

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The discovery, led by Prof. Liu Feng, from the Nanjing ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change ... in the first few millions of years of the Triassic was a direct result of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, as plants slowly became ...

This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 ... came to look like those from before the end-Permian collapse. But crucially, the plant species that made up the new forests were completely ...