Canadian Arctic Ice Retreat Exposes Ancient Lands

[Judi Lynn]

Posted by News Editor in Land Use, Latest News, RSS on January 25, 2019 12:10 pm



BOULDER, Colorado, January 25, 2019 (ENS) – Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that have not been ice-free in more than 40,000 years, and the region is experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years, finds new University of Colorado Boulder research.

The study, published today in the journal “Nature Communications,” uses radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of plants collected at the edges of 30 ice caps on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, west of Greenland. The island has experienced summertime warming in recent decades.

The high Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on Earth, is already undergoing rapid ecosystem change and and scientists predict it will continue to transform in the future.

“The Arctic is currently warming two to three times faster than the rest of the globe, so naturally, glaciers and ice caps are going to react faster,” said Simon Pendleton, lead author and a doctoral researcher in CU Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, INSTAAR.

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[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. Yikes !!

We NEED our scientists back in government.

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." Neil deGrasse Tyson.