Monday, June 18, 2012

Study Finds Ancient Warming Greened Antarctica

Yahoo!: A new university-led study with NASA participation finds ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected. The climate was suitable to support substantial vegetation -- including stunted trees -- along the edges of the frozen continent. The team of scientists involved in the study, published online June 17 in Nature Geoscience, was led by Sarah J. Feakins of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and included researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/study-finds-ancient-warming-greened-antarctica-180020536.html

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