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Arctic was once lush and green, could be again, new research shows – EurekAlert
Recent analysis of ancient DNA gathered from lake beds in the Arctic may not only be a glimpse of the past but a snapshot of our potential future.
IMAGE: Sarah Crump and her field partner maneuver their makeshift raft across a lake on Baffin Island.
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Credit: Zach Montes Orijin Media
Imagine not a white, but a green Arctic, with woody shrubs as far north as the Canadian coast of the Arctic Ocean. This is what the northernmost region of North America looked like about 125,000 years ago, during the last interglacial period, finds new research from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Researchers analyzed plant DNA more than 100,000…
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