Amber is fossilised plant resin. It can be used to provide insights into the terrestrial
conditions at the time the original resin was exuded. Amber research thus can inform many …

The end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) is thought to have been caused by voluminous,
pulsed volcanic activity of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). Over the last …

How coniferous forests evolved in the Northern Hemisphere remains largely unknown.
Unlike most groups of organisms that generally follow a latitudinal diversity gradient, most …

Direct evidence of intense chemical weathering induced by volcanism is rare in sedimentary
successions. Here, we undertake a multiproxy analysis (including organic carbon isotopes …

Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

For much of the Mesozoic record there has been an inconclusive debate on the possible
global significance of isotopic proxies for environmental change and of sequence …

Tropical grasses fuel the majority of fires on Earth. In fire‐prone landscapes, enhanced
flammability may be adaptive for grasses via the maintenance of an open canopy and an …

Rapid global warming and oceanic oxygen deficiency during the Early Jurassic Toarcian
Oceanic Anoxic Event at around 183 Ma is associated with a major turnover of marine biota …

We suggest that the spread of angiosperms in the Cretaceous was facilitated by novel fire
regimes. Angiosperms were capable of high productivity and therefore accumulated …

During the past 600 million years of Earth history, four of five major extinction events were
synchronous with volcanism in large igneous provinces. Despite improved temporal …