Скачать или смотреть The Carnian Pluvial Episode: When Rain Never Stopped for 2 Million Years

For nearly two million years, rain fell across a world that had once been defined by dryness. During the Late Triassic, long before dinosaurs became dominant, Earth entered an unusual climatic interval known as the Carnian Pluvial Episode. Subtle atmospheric changes, driven by prolonged volcanic activity, transformed deserts into river-cut landscapes and reshaped ecosystems across the supercontinent Pangea.

This video explores how slow, persistent rainfall altered the planet without spectacle or sudden catastrophe. It follows the evidence preserved in stone, soil, and fossils to show how landscapes reorganised, how life adapted and declined, and how new ecological opportunities quietly emerged. Rather than focusing on drama, the story unfolds through patience, deep time, and the cumulative power of small changes sustained for millions of years.

Told in a calm, grounded style, this journey places human timescales gently within Earth’s much larger history. It is a story about climate, evolution, and contingency, and about how the future can be shaped not by single events, but by conditions that simply last long enough to matter.