Shrinking Glaciers Reveal Hidden Forests And A Warmer Climate
Friday, December 5, 2008 - 12:14
in Earth & Climate
Uniquely old tree remains have recently been uncovered by the thawing of the rapidly shrinking Kårsa Glacier west of Abisko in Lapland, in northernmost Sweden. The finds show that in the last 7,000 years it has probably never been so warm as during the last century.