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As ice retreats, frozen mosses emerge to tell climate change tale

Source
Science News

Publication Date
2017-10-26

Some mosses in the eastern Canadian Arctic, long entombed in ice, are now emerging into the sunlight. And the radiocarbon ages of those plants suggest that summertime temperatures in the region are the warmest they’ve been in tens of thousands of years.

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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ice-retreats-frozen-mosses-emerge-tell-climate-change-tale