Triassic inferno: Fires raged across Europe for millennia during past global warming

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Jul 21, 2026, 9:20 am262 ptsTop
The end-Triassic mass extinction, 201 million years ago, is linked to volcanism that resulted from the break-up of Pangea and which pumped out vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, causing extreme global warming of 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. As a result, tree-dominated vegetation collapsed and the highly…

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