India, May 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Molecular evidence unearthed of massive wildfires that swept across ancient Gondwana forests nearly 250 million years ago, thereby shaping Earth's climate, vegetation, and coal-forming environments.
Macrocharcoal-based palaeofire investigations in Indian Permian sediments provided the first tangible evidence of palaeofire activity at a broader scale. Based on these results, researchers began identifying distinction between various forms of microcharcoal particles within Permian sedimentary sequences, highlighting the potential for more detailed, high-resolution fire reconstructions.
It was however noted that the scarcity of molecular methods used in palaeofire research was a ...