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Greenland’s ice melted away at least once in last million years – Phys.org
The ice sheet atop Greenland —which holds enough frozen water to swamp coastal cities worldwide—has melted to the ground at least once in the last million years…
The ice sheet atop Greenland which holds enough frozen water to swamp coastal cities worldwidehas melted to the ground at least once in the last million years despite CO2 levels far lower than today, stunned scientists have reported.
The surprise discovery of plant fossils in soil samples extracted in the 1960s by US army engineers from beneath two kilometres of ice is smoking-gun proof that Greenlandthree times the size of Texaswas covered with lichen, moss and perhaps trees in the not-so-distant…
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