Volcanoes

In the years after the Mt St Helens eruption of 18 May 1980, scientists discovered that the initial pessimistic forecasts of long-term barrenness were wrong, as vegetation and wildlife soon returned.

Long-age evolutionary interpretations of the fossil record result in evolutionists having to explain various mass extinctions (including the demise of the dinosaurs) in the distant past, e.g. via asteroid impacts, or explosive vulcanism. But theres a much more straightforward answer.