Forest fires ravaged Europe for thousands of years 201 million years ago
The mass extinction at the end of the Triassic period, 201 million years ago, was caused by extensive volcanic eruptions and a rapidly warming climate as the then-supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart. Global temperatures rose by at least 3–4 degrees Celsius. A new study in Nature Geoscience shows that widespread forest fires raged across the fern savannahs that spread following the die-off
https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/forest-fires-ravaged-europe-thousands-years-201-million-years-ago - 2026-07-22
