Articles for tag: ClimateChange, EarthHistory, Glaciology, Greenland

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The Ancient Forest Discovered Beneath an Ice Sheet in Greenland

Suhail Ahmed

  It began with a drill biting into ancient ice and pulling up something no one expected: dark, fragile roots locked in a frozen time capsule. Beneath Greenland’s vast white shield, a long-buried landscape has whispered back to life, hinting at a time when trees, soil, and running water ruled where glaciers now reign. The ...

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How Studying Mars Helps Us Understand Earth’s Past (and Future)

Suhail Ahmed

Geology rarely gives us second chances, yet Mars is a kind of time capsule parked next door. While plate tectonics, oceans, and life have reworked much of Earth’s earliest story, the Red Planet kept its ancient chapters pressed flat and legible. That’s why robots roll over Martian lakebeds and orbiters scan polar layers like librarians ...