
Modern Warming Is Undoing Millennia of Arctic Ice Cover
Author(s) -
Kimberly Cartier
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo115895
Subject(s) - undoing , environmental science , arctic , climatology , the arctic , global warming , physical geography , climate change , oceanography , geography , geology , psychology , psychotherapist
Plants and rocks at the edges of glaciers have been entombed in ice for more than 40,000 years. Modern warming, unmatched in 115,000 years, is now uncovering these landscapes.