Fossil evidence that increased wildfire activity occurs in tandem with periods of global warming in Earth's past

Marine organic carbon burial increased forest fire frequency during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

(2020) F. Garrett Boudinot et al.   Nature Geoscience

Frequent and intense fires in the final coals of the Paleozoic indicate elevated atmospheric oxygen levels at the onset of the End-Permian Mass Extinction Event

(2019) Zhiming Yan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present

(2019) Vivi Vajda et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

COPSE reloaded: An improved model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time

(2018) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

(2018) S Archibald et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Changes in the occurrence of extreme precipitation events at the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

(2018) Matthew J. Carmichael et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Climatic thresholds shape northern high-latitude fire regimes and imply vulnerability to future climate change

(2016) Adam M. Young et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A modeling case for high atmospheric oxygen concentrations during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic

(2016) Benjamin J.W. Mills et al.   GEOLOGY

Changes to Cretaceous surface fire behaviour influenced the spread of the early angiosperms

(2016) Claire M. Belcher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The influence of leaf morphology on litter flammability and its utility for interpreting palaeofire

(2016) Claire M. Belcher   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Temperature and atmospheric CO2concentration estimates through the PETM using triple oxygen isotope analysis of mammalian bioapatite

(2016) Alexander Gehler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact ejecta at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary

(2016) M. F. Schaller et al.   SCIENCE

Basalt-seawater interaction, the Plenus Cold Event, enhanced weathering and geochemical change: deconstructing Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (Cenomanian-Turonian, Late Cretaceous)

(2016) Hugh C. Jenkyns et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Integrating geological archives and climate models for the mid-Pliocene warm period

(2016) Alan M. Haywood et al.   Nature Communications

Ca isotope stratigraphy across the Cenomanian–Turonian OAE 2: Links between volcanism, seawater geochemistry, and the carbonate fractionation factor

(2015) Alice D.C. Du Vivier et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early Paleogene wildfires in peat-forming environments at Schöningen, Germany

(2015) Brittany E. Robson et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Latest Permian chars may derive from wildfires, not coal combustion

(2014) V. A. Hudspith et al.   GEOLOGY

Observational evidence of fire-driven reduction of cloud fraction in tropical Africa

(2014) M. G. Tosca et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Climate model and proxy data constraints on ocean warming across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

(2013) Tom Dunkley Jones et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A perturbed hydrological cycle during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

(2013) N. A. G. M. van Helmond et al.   GEOLOGY

Orbital-scale climate forcing of grassland burning in southern Africa

(2013) A.-L. Daniau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The end‐Permian mass extinction: A rapid volcanic CO2 and CH4‐climatic catastrophe

(2012) Uwe Brand et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Climate warming in the latest Permian and the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

(2012) M. M. Joachimski et al.   GEOLOGY

Coupled CO2-climate response during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

(2012) Ethan G. Hyland et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Synchronous Wildfire Activity Rise and Mire Deforestation at the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary

(2012) Henrik I. Petersen et al.   PLoS One

Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse

(2012) Y. Sun et al.   SCIENCE

Estimates of Arctic land surface temperatures during the early Pliocene from two novel proxies

(2011) Adam Z. Csank et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evidence for wildfire in the Meishan section and implications for Permian–Triassic events

(2011) Wenjie Shen et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sedimentological, palynological and geochemical studies of the terrestrial Triassic–Jurassic boundary in northwestern Poland

(2011) GRZEGORZ PIEŃKOWSKI et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Catastrophic dispersion of coal fly ash into oceans during the latest Permian extinction

(2011) Stephen E. Grasby et al.   Nature Geoscience

Explosive eruption of coal and basalt and the end-Permian mass extinction

(2011) D. E. Ogden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Significance of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Permian/Triassic boundary sections

(2010) Birgit Nabbefeld et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

Geochemistry of oceanic anoxic events

(2010) Hugh C. Jenkyns   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

An extraterrestrial 3He-based timescale for the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) from Walvis Ridge, IODP Site 1266

(2010) B.H. Murphy et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Significantly warmer Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene indicated by multiple independent proxies

(2010) A.P. Ballantyne et al.   GEOLOGY

Carbon sequestration activated by a volcanic CO2 pulse during Ocean Anoxic Event 2

(2010) Richard S. Barclay et al.   Nature Geoscience

Phanerozoic concentrations of atmospheric oxygen reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal

(2010) Ian J. Glasspool et al.   Nature Geoscience

Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth's ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years

(2010) C. M. Belcher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia

(2010) S.D. Mooney et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Palynological evidence of vegetation dynamics in response to palaeoenvironmental change across the onset of the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum at Cobham, Southern England

(2009) Margaret E. Collinson et al.   GRANA

High Earth-system climate sensitivity determined from Pliocene carbon dioxide concentrations

(2009) Mark Pagani et al.   Nature Geoscience

Floral changes across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary linked to flood basalt volcanism

(2009) B. van de Schootbrugge et al.   Nature Geoscience

WIDESPREAD UPPER TRIASSIC TO LOWER JURASSIC WILDFIRE RECORDS FROM POLAND: EVIDENCE FROM CHARCOAL AND PYROLYTIC POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS

(2009) L. MARYNOWSKI et al.   PALAIOS

Fire in the Earth System

(2009) D. M. J. S. Bowman et al.   SCIENCE

Astronomical climate control on paleosol stacking patterns in the upper Paleocene–lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

(2008) Hayfaa Abdul Aziz et al.   GEOLOGY

The role of climate variability and fire in early and mid Holocene forest dynamics of southern Sweden

(2008) Annica Greisman et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Limits for Combustion in Low O2 Redefine Paleoatmospheric Predictions for the Mesozoic

(2008) C. M. Belcher et al.   SCIENCE

Methane Release from Igneous Intrusion of Coal during Late Permian Extinction Events

(2007) Gregory J. Retallack et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY