Green History of Greenland


	Green History of Greenland

suryasunder

7-6-2007 9:35 AM

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greenland, environment, science

suryasunder says:

The news is partly bad and partly good. The last line of my clip contains the good news. The bad news is that we now know what Nature can make happen to greenery. We'd like to know what we can do to prevent it.

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<FONT size="2">DNA extracted from ice cores show that moths and butterflies were living in forests of spruce and pine in the area between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago.
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<FONT size="2">Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say they believe the DNAs are the oldest pure samples obtained. 
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