University of colorado at boulder; CU study provides new evidence ancient asteroid caused global firestorm on earth.

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y a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Chemicals & Chemistry -- A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction of 80 percent of all Earth's species, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.