Fortune August 23, 2026 • 15:17

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

By Regan E. Dunn, The Conversation

Tree fossils that are 56 million years old are trying to tell us something about how long forests take to bounce back from extreme heat.

The fossil record preserves this same fragmented leaf litter. Comparing the shapes of thousands of epidermal cells with the leaf area index we measured revealed a remarkably strong relationship: The … [+4035 chars]

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

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