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Saturday, April 3, 2021

Research led by University of Vermont - Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice [EarthSky, March 2021]

Title:
Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
 
Author:
Kelly Kizer Whitt 

Published:
EarthSky, 21 March 2021

From the article:
Scientists announced on March 15, 2021, that an international effort to analyze Greenland ice cores left behind from the 1960s has revealed fossilized plants underneath mile-thick (1.6-km thick) Greenland ice. These plants existed on Greenland – the world’s largest island – within the past million years.