Earth under global cooling

		IMAGE: The Late Eocene Earth -- Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts by Christian Koeberl and Alessandro Montanari (editors). Click here for more information.

Boulder, CO, USA - Thirty-four-million years ago, Earth changed profoundly. What happened, and how were Earth's animals, plants, oceans, and climate affected? Focusing on the end of the Eocene epoch and the Eocene-Oligocene transition, a critical but very brief interval in Earth's history, GSA's latest Special Paper provides new answers to these questions.