Emma the Curious 🧐 on Nostr: Some 13,000 years ago, near the end of the Pleistocene epoch (AKA the Ice Age), when ...

Some 13,000 years ago, near the end of the Pleistocene epoch (AKA the Ice Age), when most of the Earth’s large mammals went extinct and, at least in Southern California, Homo sapiens set the region ablaze. Paleobotanist Jessie George and her colleagues at the Tar Pits think we can learn a lot about managing today’s climate change by studying the plants that survived the last one.

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/newsletter/2024-07-01/california-plants-that-survived-the-ice-age-fires-lat-plants