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. Advertisement The dirt researchers inspected is a sediment sample from the bottom of an ice core, retrieved...
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