Climate played big role in Vikings' disappearance from Greenland
Monday, May 30, 2011 - 21:30
in Earth & Climate
Greenland's early Viking settlers were subjected to rapidly changing climate. Temperatures plunged several degrees in a span of decades, according to researchers. A reconstruction of 5,600 years of climate history from lakes near the Norse settlement in western Greenland also shows how climate affected the Dorset and Saqqaq cultures.