While El Niño climate patterns today are responsible for prolonged droughts and high temperatures, during the end-Permian ...

Our new study reveals that the oceans rapidly heated up all across the world’s low and mid latitudes. Normally, it gets ...

Researchers have linked the largest mass extinction event, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic ...

2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on ...

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm, pushing most life on Earth past its limits. When you purchase ...

The Earth’s land surfaces burned frequently, while the oceans became stagnant, devoid of oxygen. This left no refuge for life to survive. One of the most intriguing findings of the research is that ...

University of Bristol and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) A long-lasting mega El Nino condition marked by unusually elevated equatorial ocean temperatures may have triggered the worst mass ...

Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago ... initially shielded from the temperature rises, the mega-El Nino’s ...

About 252 million years ago, extreme El Niño ocean warming events were a ... events killed 80 to 90 percent of species living on Earth and offer a stark warning as the planet continues to warm.

The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it's known, was the greatest of the "big five" mass extinctions in Earth's history ... much like the El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific today.