But in PETM sediments they find it all over the world—confirmation that the ocean was heating up everywhere. In the Paleocene the summer water temperature in the Arctic Ocean was already around ...

Deep in the Myanmar Mogok region, a tiny reddish-orange crystal sat unnoticed. To the untrained eye, it seemed like many ...

the Paleocene, the forests were on fire, tsunamis rocked the coasts, and vast quantities of vaporised rock, ash and dust were ...

The period lasted 200,000 years before the world was able to return to a "normal" temperature. Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was ...