What Happened To The First Rainforests? Global Warming Got Them Too, Says Study

Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 14:07 in Earth & Climate

We hear lots of concern about global warming and the world's rainforests, though they have even begun to thrive under warming conditions - but what about ancient rainforests, long before the Dawn of Man and the destruction we apparently set into motion just by evolving? The answer lies in underground coalmines in Illinois. There lay the remains of the first tropical rainforests to evolve on our planet around 300 million years - when the USA lay on the equator. An amazing feature of the forests is that they are preserved over a vast area. One example covers 10,000 hectares - the size of a city. Read More...

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