Thursday, May 3, 2012

Scientists core into California's Clear Lake to explore past climate change

Phys.Org: University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals will adapt to climate change and increasing population. The lake sediments are among the world's oldest, containing records of biological change stretching back as far as 500,000 years. The core drilling is part of a unique, multifaceted effort at UC Berkeley to determine how Earth's...

URL: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-scientists-core-california-lake-explore.html

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