May 2012
3 posts
An Underground Fossil Forest Offers Clues on... →
thegreenurbanist:
climateadaptation:
“Scientists are exploring dripping passages by the light of headlamps, mapping out an ecosystem from 307 million years ago, just before the world’s first great forests were wiped out by global warming. This vast prehistoric landscape may shed new light on climate change today.
Dating from the Pennsylvanian period of the Carboniferous era, the forest lies...
