Earth's forests face 10x faster climate shock than 100,000-year recovery period

Accelerated forest loss threatens biodiversity, carbon sequestration capacity, and livelihoods dependent on forest ecosystems globally.

Fifty-six million years ago, a warming event stripped Earth's forests bare, and the planet spent 100,000 years quietly rebuilding them — a timeline written in fossil and sediment that now reads less like history and more like a warning. Today's climate is shifting ten times faster than that ancient disruption, compressing what once took geological patience into a span that leaves little room for the slow, intricate work of ecological recovery. Forests do not simply regrow; they reconstruct — soil by soil, species by species — and that reconstruction demands something we are rapidly withdrawing

Earth's forests face 10x faster climate shock than 100,000-year recovery period

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