Humans are living in a geologic era with the most diverse life-forms — the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning about 540 million years, the eon started with an explosion of the modern life we see today.

Presently, the Earth's average global temperature is about 59 degrees Fahrenheit, cooler than much of the Phanerozoic era. However, human-induced climate change is driving temperature increases at ...

An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts ...

The findings also reveal that the Earth's current global temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit is cooler than Earth has been over much of the Phanerozoic. But greenhouse gas emissions from human ...

Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging ... a span of time known as the Phanerozoic to experts. Despite the fact that researchers have been studying prehistoric climates ...

This era in turn marks the most recent part of the Phanerozoic aeon ... He was living in some other age, one shaped primarily by people. From their trawlers scraping the floors of the seas ...

A direct link has been shown between the greatest increase in Phanerozoic marine biodiversity ... CO 2 levels does not affect climate. Thus, human-made emissions due to the burning of fossil ...

Additionally, GMST data from the Phanerozoic provides important context for current human-induced warming. However, temperature reconstructions from this period have traditionally relied on ...

It turned out, the team found, that this underestimation of past warm periods extended to the entire Phanerozoic ... But this doesn’t mean current human-caused global warming isn’t a dire ...

Using X-rays, they probed the chemical composition of water pockets as small as 30 micrometres across - one third of the width of a human hair 1. Crystals from Australia, the Middle East and the ...

“We know it to be the worst extinction in the Phanerozoic,” Tierney said. “By analogy, we should be worried about human warming because it’s so fast. We’re changing Earth’s temperature ...