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Early Pleistocene Greenland Was ‘At Least 9C’ Warmer Than Today

Written by Kenneth Richard

Evidence of abundant lakes and ponds and the remains of vascular plants, warmth-demanding beetles, sponges, and spruce forests…in a newly-discovered organic-rich deposit 480 m above sea level in High Arctic (76.4°N) northwest Greenland indicates the local climate was similar to today’s southern Greenland (~60°N) and North America during the Early Pleistocene ice age

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