Million-Year-Old Plant Fossils Are a Greenland Ice Sheet Warning
Photo: Felipe Dana (AP) Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and sea level rise. A study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists says that plant fossils found in a sample of dirt collected from a mile beneath the ice in the mid-1960s suggest that the world’s pre-human climate was at one point warm enough to completely melt the Greenland ice sheet. Adverti...
Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq United States Proceedings Of The National Academy Scientists University Of Vermont Felipe Dana Cold War Era
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