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Ancient plant fossils recovered in Greenland by a UCD scientist can tell us something about climate change today and its possible impact on plants, writes CLAIRE O'CONNELL.

HERE’S A cautionary tale from the fossil record: plant biodiversity plummeted abruptly 200 million years ago under conditions of environmental change that are not too far off today’s scale.