A climate scientist trying to figure out what might happen to our planet in the near future would love to be able to determine how much rain fell during past eras of global warming. A pair of University of Connecticut researchers has come up with a way to do exactly that.
Uconn Scientists Use Ancient Plant Deposits To Estimate Climate Change
Gregory B. Hladky, Hartford Courant: Politics
Fri, 03/16/2018 - 9:00pm
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