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Researchers used modelling and plant fossils to follow the planet's transition to 10 degrees of warming, which eradicated ...

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About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...

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